[Color Computer] Re: [coco] MESS

[Robert Gault]

George,

You misunderstand me. You asked where one should place the ROM images in 
MESS, I sent a detailed answer, you then sent another message saying 
MESS still could not find the ROMs.

At this point, no one could tell you what was wrong without knowing 
exactly where you had placed the ROM images (you did not say), whether 
your images were zipped or unzipped, which version of the ROMs and MESS 
were being used, and whether your OS was Windows or something else. All 
of which could be the source of the problem. All of which was important 
information that you did have.

So it is not that you did not know what quesitons to ask, but that you 
asked for a solution to a problem without fully describing what you were 
doing.

As your e-mail was not being sorted in sequential order, that certainly 
explains most of the confusion. The rest is the common error made by a 
large percentage of writers to newsgroups where so little data is 
supplied that the questions asked can't be answered.

George Ramsower wrote:

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> 
> I wish I COULD have offered more info. It wasn't there. Only a dialog 
> box with a button to close it that claimed that the file could not be 
> found.
> If it had offered more information, I might have learned of the 
> information you offered earlier. Alas, it didn't offer any more 
> information than that.
> 
> You know the old saying...
> "The more I learn, the more I find out I didn't know"
> 
> I cannot ask questions about something I know nothing about execpt...
> 
> "What does it do and how do I work this thing?"
> 
> I apologize for not knowing what questions to answer when I didn't know 
> the questions.
> 
> George
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