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From:	Andrew Dalgleish <andrewd AT axonet DOT com DOT au>
To:	Timothy Reaves <treaves AT y11a165 DOT neo DOT rr DOT com>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject:	RE: Total lack of accurate documentation!
Date:	Thu, 25 Feb 1999 09:41:37 +1100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Timothy Reaves [SMTP:treaves AT y11a165 DOT neo DOT rr DOT com]
> Sent:	1999 February 25, Thursday 06:13
> To:	cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> Subject:	Total lack of accurate documentation!
> 
>      I downloaded this product, and initially said WOW.  That changesd
> meaning as I began to look around at the documentation.  Sad.  There
> is
> much missing and a lot of what is there is outright wrong!
> 
>     Does anyone know if this is due to rapid changes in the product,
> or
> slow documentation people?  I have tried to use the search feature to
> search the past mails, but their search engine is broke due to a mount
> problem it looks like.
> 
>     There are two things I'd like to know off the bat:
>     1) If I have /tmp mounted on d:\temp, and can do cd /tmp, why does
> /tmp not show up when I
>          do  a ls -la / ?
>     2) I have the following line in my .bashrc file, copied from
> linux.
>             alias dir = 'ls -la --color=yes'
>         when I start bash, I get the following errors:
>                     bash: alias: 'dir' not found
>                     bash: alias: '=' not found
[Andrew Dalgleish]  
You have spaces around your equals sign.
378$ alias dir = ls
bash.exe: alias: `dir' not found
bash.exe: alias: `=' not found
alias ls='ls --color=tty -F'
379$ alias dir=ls
380$


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