What do you think of my NHF?

[nopun]

I am attempting to write an NHF on troubleshooting compilation problems. If you would like to criticise it, take a look here (http://www.branston.plus.com/nhf-ctg.html). I am not too bothered about spelling and grammar at the moment, more content and tone (when I try to help on this board, I sometimes get asked the question "which part of newbie don't you understand?", I wouldn't mind if I wasn't so newbie myself)
btw, I managed to go to the trouble of doing it in html because I thought that was the preferred format. Perhaps I could write an NHF entitled "How to use sed to strip out html tags"

[Lovechild]

looking good...

here's one for your NHF:

gcc working ..... no
unable to make exec files

[nopun]

Thanks for the reply Lovechild.
I've uploaded an updated version to the same (http://www.branston.plus.com/nhf-ctg.html) url. It needs a lot adding to it, and what's there needs a bit of "fixing". I am not too sure how useful it's going to be, we shall see....

[Lovechild]

LOOKING SWEET !!! nopun keep it up

[MSD]

Originally posted by nopun:
<STRONG>I am attempting to write an NHF on troubleshooting compilation problems. If you would like to criticise it, take a look here (http://www.branston.plus.com/nhf-ctg.html). I am not too bothered about spelling and grammar at the moment, more content and tone (when I try to help on this board, I sometimes get asked the question "which part of newbie don't you understand?", I wouldn't mind if I wasn't so newbie myself)
btw, I managed to go to the trouble of doing it in html because I thought that was the preferred format. Perhaps I could write an NHF entitled "How to use sed to strip out html tags"</STRONG>

It's looking good mate. Looks like even I can understand it, which is rare beleive me. I should be used as a benchmark for newbie literature!

I think that when writing newbie instructions, understanding of anything should not be taken for granted. It looks like your NHF is headed in the right direction. Keep it up.

_Moss

[nopun]

Thanks for the opinions guys.
That makes it 2 +ve viewpoints versus 1 -ve (the -ve received by private message). Although that's a pretty small sample, it kinda makes me feel better.

I am aware of things things that are wrong with it at the moment. One thing that plays on my mind is that each time something is not found, I am assuming it's not there - of course, we could be talking about a PATH issue or ld.so.conf or something like that - but how exhaustive can I make this thing? I don't want it to turn into "War and Peace".

Oh, and for those that are wary of regular expressions, I though of a slightly more obvious way of stripping html tags - it's called a "web browser" :D
doh!