In article <3e56003e.6747031@news.povray.org>,
 mca### [at] aolcom (S McAvoy) wrote:

> I think what George meant was, that to someone starting out using PovRay, the
> manual has too much to much information to take in all at once. Not all users
> are professional IT experts you know. PovRay attracts artists, as well as
> techies, whose search skills may not be the best. It can be daunting trying to
> find information you only have a hazy idea about using a manual you are not
> familiar with. 

The person knew the C strlen() function, which strongly implies he is 
not in that group. It would have been very simple to search the 
documentation for "strlen", or just try it in a simple scene. If he 
hadn't known about strlen(), a slightly more complex search would still 
quickly find it, but I would have reacted differently. (the probability 
of him being a newbie or non-coder type would have been much higher)

Anyway, this is getting out of hand. The question has been answered, 
lets drop it. I'm sorry if I appeared excessively rude, but the 
documentation is written to answer these kinds of questions before they 
are asked, it is annoying and frustrating to have that work ignored.

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Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet>
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