{"id":93193,"date":"2016-03-23T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=93193"},"modified":"2019-03-13T10:31:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T17:31:45","slug":"20160323-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20160323-00\/?p=93193","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t be helpless: You can find information too, if you try (episode 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the information you receive regarding the location of a document or other resource is not perfectly correct. <\/p>\n<blockquote CLASS=\"q\"><p>I put the script on <code>\\\\<a HREF=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2011\/06\/07\/10171801.aspx\">scratch<\/a>\\temp\\bob\\widgetstuff\\enable&shy;widgets.cmd<\/code>. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But then you look, and <i>oh no<\/i> it&#8217;s not there! <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t give up yet. <\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gaI6kBVyu00\">Look around you<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe the script is in a nearby directory. Maybe Bob misspelled the path or file name. <\/p>\n<blockquote CLASS=\"q\"><p>Got it, thanks. It was actually in a <code>scripts<\/code> subdirectory, but I was extra smart and figured that out for myself! I deserve a cookie. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have been known to give information that is intentionally ever-so-slightly incorrect in an obvious way (like misspelling a function name or providing the wrong number of parameters), so that the person receiving the information will be forced to look around. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look around you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-93193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Look around you.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}