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Number   :  7175
Date     :  2004-02-05
Author   :  Kan Yabumoto
Subject  :  Re: Command File Dir Exclusions
Size(KB) :  3



John: wrote:
>Kan I must admit that even though I've read Technical Bulletin #05
>many times myself, that I've never been completely clear on the way
>the exclusions work. This message post of yours has helped me a lot
>though, and I believe it can be of great benefit to others as well,
>now and in the future. So I've taken the liberty of including the
>main body of your reply below this, in the latest version of the
>xxcopy.chm help file (a new page was added named "More about
>Exclusions").
>
>It is my hope that my doing this will eliminate your ever having to
>go to the trouble of explaining exclusions like this again.
>
>The latest version of the help file is available in the Files section
>of this forum
>
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xxcopy/files/

John, thank you very much to your initiative.

Actually, if you notice the dates of many technical
bulletins, you find that I don't write as many
technical bulletins as I used to. This is bad.
But, originally, before we did not have this discussion
group, I was more into writing technical bulletins
whenever I find common questions by Emails. Most of
the articles were born out of necessity to reduce my
repetitive explanation in Emails.

Now, Whenever I find a pattern of questions in this group,
I try to explain the subject (even though the topic is
already covered by technical bulletin like in this case)
pretty much from scratch. Sometimes, I make a better
presentation, some other times, not as good.

Usually, writing the technical bulletin is a lot more
time-consuming than preparing a response to this
message ---- as you can see, I make tons of grammatical
and typing errors and I'm less careful in what I say
in here. But, if I were to shoot for perfect document
in here, I would even become more shy in explaining
the topic. I hope most of you forgive my less than
perfect command in the English language in here.
In general, I try to be very precise in the subject matter
in XXCOPY (and less perfect in the English language).
Although many of the spelling and grammatical errors can be
avoided by repeated proof readings, usually when I'm done
with writing a substantial message, I just run out of
my mental energy to go over the material.

Occasionally, when I write a lengthy message in this
board, I tell myself that I should bookmark my own
message for future use in the technical bulletin.
But, I never find time doing so. Therefore, if you
find my lengthy response worthy of a chapter in
the XXCOPY.CHM file, that will be great. This will
give me additional incentive to take time and make
a good response to cover a subject matter (rather
than a terse reply).

Suggestion to John:

If you were to fetch my writing, it is best that you
take it from the Emails that are delivered to you
from the mailing list rather than doing so from the
Yahoo group's web page. Yahoo's web page always
collapses multiple-space characters into one and
will not take advantage of my original indentations
which were meant to improve readability.

Also, I'm not sure if this is easy or not. But,
if it is feasible, I much prefer a fixed-pitch
font for the command-line examples in the CHM file
(or for any technical article).

Just as an example for what I'm talking about,
see the following tutorial page by Microsoft:

http://www.csidata.com/custserv/onlinehelp/VBSdocs/vbs4.htm

The example code sections use the Courier font
which is an ideal presentation in my opinion.

Kan Yabumoto



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