RTFM is quite often the best response we can give. Assuming we include which TFM and where to find it. If TFM contains the answer why should we waste time to write it again? Or copy it from the docs? If you get the pointer to the docs you will read the answer there and know where to look next time.

Of course if you say you do not get the answer from the docs it's something completely different. In that case we should try and give you a different explanation ... or point you to some other FM.

<sigh>To tell the truth the hardest questions to respond to are those that show the complete ignorance on the other party. Not those that show that the person did not care to look for the answer in any docs, but those that show he/she doesn't have any idea whay is he/she doing. Those that show that the person speaks a different language (no, I don't mean uninteligible translations from his/her mother language to English), that there is so huge a gap between his/her way of thinking and yours that there is simply no way to pass any information. In that case I really don't know what FM to suggest. Sometimes I think the person should start with Math for the second grade. (No that's not your case.)<sigh>

Jenda
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
   -- Rick Osborne

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