>RTFM means I really should read the manual and from someone like
>Olin ET AL (who's advice, time and effort I respect and appreciate)
>clearly means I am looking in the wrong place.

However if Read The Fine Manual is the total response, then often the 
response shouldn't be sent at all. We had a recent thread where it became 
evident that the OP who had asked a question had been looking through the 
datasheet, but hadn't picked up that the info they needed was in a seperate 
section to where they were looking. So if replying RTFM, then do add a 
pointer to the relevant portion of the datasheet.

I find that because of the way the datasheet is organised I also miss info, 
only to find it in another section than where I expect it, as it has come 
under a heading that has an oblique reference to what I am looking for. The 
reference manuals seem to have this bad because of the way they are 
organised to cover whole families of chips that have evolving features over 
time. 

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