Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20010504113117.01fd8888@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 11:38:16 -0400 To: andreas.ames@tenovis.com, Cygwin Users From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: Command line parsing in Cygwin 1.3.1 Cc: Earnie Boyd In-Reply-To: References: <3AF293DB.42E624A8@yahoo.com> <3AF15526.1793E005@yahoo.com> <3AF293DB.42E624A8@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 09:00 AM 5/4/2001, Andreas Ames wrote: >5) You may think that my postings on this topic are a little rude. I > must admit you're right. This is not the usual way for me to > interact with other human beings. But after reading the list since > some weeks i learned that this rude kind of posting is exactly what > is common here, esp. when it comes to answers from some high > frequency posters. When i am in a new place i like to adapt myself > to this environment in the beginning. I hope you like my way of being > polite :-B. I think its a shame you take this approach. Email, like any other written form, can be notably obscure when it comes to conveying the author's emotional state. Ambiguities in this area are often filled in by the reader based on their emotional state at the time the message is read. Its simply human nature. Still, one needs to be careful not to read too much into a response, especially in these ambiguous areas. Its better if we all *assume* that the author's intent was to help and instruct in the absence of clear indication otherwise. This will aid in keeping the list focused, productive, and as helpful as possible. Oops! I guess I was soapboxing!;-) Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple