[FM Discuss] problem with remix (don't quite understand the problem)

[dwp]

Hi: I am  new to this whole process. First, i don't know what "remix"  
means or is supposed to do. However; i did click on the link you  
provided, and i got a message that said that "Sugar.... is a web  
application that was attached to a mail message. Are you sure you want  
to open it?

I'm sure:) . Then when i clicked open, Firewire, my default browser,  
launched and I got a flat-file type of listing of all Floss manual  
efforts which i found very helpful. The sugar part of the list (and  
preceding/following items extracted below:

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I clicked on Browse, then the note at the bottom "this is not the  
entire manual...." (sometimes this gives me a 404)  and saw that only  
the the Introduction appears to be in a completed form. The rest i  
guess is an outline for us aspiring writers to provide additional  
details. BTW: I find the tabbed browser feature of Firefox (and Opera  
if it would work with our editing program) very useful to avoid  
getting lost in the links.

Just for the exercise i logged on and entered a comment.

one very small question: What is the significance of the "*" that  
follows some of the names (e.g.XO*, Sugar0.84*, browse*, Chat*...)?.

I remember a principle i learned somewhere:"unexplained items (and  
acronyms) garble the understanding of what follows in the reader's  
mind, even when irrelevant"":) There is a lot of that in documentation  
in general like "OSI" :) :).

Regards: David Passell