Re: [LI] Re: Windows fonts on Linux

[Indranil Das Gupta <indradg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Shivsanker: 

Mr. Indranil Das Gupta *is* kind enough to condescend to throw down a 
few scraps of assistance to a lowdown Linux newbie and help him narrow 
down his search by "advicing" him to look at the footer of the messages 
he (ie. you -- the low-down newbie) recieves from Linux-India, which 
goes as follows:--

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> The Linux India Mailing List Archives are now available. Please
> search the archive at http://lists.linux-india.org/ before
> posting your question to avoid repetition and save bandwidth. 

A friendly word of advice : Think carefully before you flame someone the 
next time ... b'coz that person may not be as willing to ignore it 
because the person the other side is a newbie, because being a Linux 
newbie is not an excuse for being a newbie to the concept of ettiquette. 

--Indra. 


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On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Shivshankar Sastry wrote:

> Mr. Indranil Dasgupta writes:
> 
> >You are supposed to do what is being adviced on this list so often, but 
> >rarely paid any heed to -- *search the archives*!! 
> 
> Search the Archives!!! What an earth-shakingly brilliant suggestion! Now
> why didn't I think of that?
> 
> Of the 229 messages in the BLUG archive (as of 16 Nov 1999), there is no
> subject that cotains the word Fonts or Windows, and a few with the word
> Linux. A net search revealed 9.8 million matches for the word "archives".
> Perhaps Mr. Indranil Dasgupta would be kind enough to condescend to throw
> down a few scraps of assistance to a lowdown Linux newbie and help him
> narrow down his search by "advicing" what archives I am supposed to search in?
> 
> 
> >Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 21:13:46 +0530 (IST)
> >From: Indranil Das Gupta <indradg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Subject: Re: [LI] Windows fonts on Linux
> >
> >On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Shivshankar Sastry wrote:
> >> 
> >> In my confusion and excitement as I was doing a first time newbie install
> >> of Linux a month ago I vaguely remember a message that seemed to say that I
> >> can ship my Windows fonts into Linux and use them
> >> 
> >> I'm not sure if my memory is playing tricks with me, but does this sound
> >> feasible? If so what am I supposed to do?
> >
> >You are supposed to do what is being adviced on this list so often, but 
> >rarely paid any heed to -- *search the archives*!! 
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