To solve your problem more quickly, and to avoid being flamed:

- Please do NOT post questions answered in the FAQ lists.
- Please do NOT post "Please send me the FAQ". See below.
- Please do NOT post "Split this group now". See below.

- Please READ the DOCUMENTATION for the program you have a problem with.

- Please TRY REINSTALLING it - maybe you just made a mistake the first time.
- Please ASK SOMEONE LOCAL to you first.

- Please ONLY LINUX-SPECIFIC POSTS - Groups for Unix, X, C, etc. listed below.

For more information READ ON ...

To get the Frequently Asked Questions with Answers lists:
 The How to get the FAQ posting, the Linux FAQ, the INFO-SHEET, the META-FAQ
 sources of information posting, etc. are posted regularly to comp.os.linux and
 c.o.l.announce, and can be found in /pub/usenet/news.answers/linux-faq at
 pit-manager.mit.edu and on the Linux archive sites. If you can't get them
 there, try mailing "mailserver@nic.funet.fi", "mailserver@pit-manager.mit.edu"
 or "ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com". If you can't get them any other way, e-mail me.

Splitting the group: It's been tried, and all the new groups except .announce
failed. It can't be tried again within 6 months. See news.announce.newgroups.

Linux is a Unix clone running on PCs; X has its own groups. Your
question is quite likely more appropriate in one of the following groups:
 Unix:   comp.unix.questions,  .admin,  .programmer,  .shell   etc.
 X:      comp.windows.x,  comp.windows.x.i386unix (for XFree86 etc)
 GNU:    gnu.emacs.help,  comp.emacs,  gnu.gcc.help,  gnu.* generally
 PCs:    comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
 C:      comp.lang.c

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