Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/03/01/12:47:06
Ah, but you'd have to read the documentation for that...
Igor
P.S. What's "cygwim.com", and what relevance does it have to this
discussion? ;-)
On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Ken Thompson wrote:
> What really bugs me is people who complain instead of doing something.
> Quit complaining and do something about it. This is open source after
> all.
>
> Ken
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
> > Subject: Re: Problem with dd to raw disks
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:44:38AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:35:40AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote:
> > > >Pah! The User's Guide. That's just a document full of useful
> > > >information. Why would anyone want to read that? ;-)
> > >
> > > Maybe we need a howto on reading the user's guide. It should
> > > certainly be in the FAQ that people should read the documentation.
> > > How would people know that they should read the documentation unless
> > > it was spelled out somewhere in black and white?
> >
> > You know, the thing that really bugs me about cygwin is the half-baked
> > attempts at documentation. A FAQ entry suggesting reading the User's
> > Guide is completely useless unless the User's Guide tells people to
> > read the FAQ.
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