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

[adam hyde]

booki booki.,..


On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 11:15 -0700, dwp wrote:
> 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:
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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