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[Bug 319]: Added reference to ESR's smart-questions document.

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1769 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Mark Hymers 23 years ago
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chapter01/changelog.xml

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 </para></listitem>
 </para></listitem>
 
 
+<listitem><para>March 26th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 02 - Asking for help:
+Added reference to ESR's smart-questions document.</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>March 25th, 2002 [markh]: Binutils - Added libopcodes
 <listitem><para>March 25th, 2002 [markh]: Binutils - Added libopcodes
 library description.</para></listitem>
 library description.</para></listitem>
 
 

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chapter02/askforhelp.xml

@@ -75,6 +75,13 @@ quoted above is what should be included to be helpful, because it
 includes the command that was executed and the command's error
 includes the command that was executed and the command's error
 message(s).</para>
 message(s).</para>
 
 
+<para>An excellent article on asking for help on the Internet in general
+has been written by Eric S. Raymond.  It is available online at <ulink
+url="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html">http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html</ulink>.
+Read and follow the hints in this document and you are much more likely
+to get a response to start with and also to get the help you actually
+need.</para>
+
 </sect2>
 </sect2>
 
 
 </sect1>
 </sect1>