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From: "Paul Derbyshire" <derbyshire AT globalserve DOT net>
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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:52:26 -0400
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On 29 Jul 2002 at 22:55, Michael Hoffman wrote:

> > This whole discussion is getting ridiculously far from the original
> > issue and I suggest we drop it.
> 
> A sensible idea.

Then why didn't you?

> Google is a remarkable tool. The fact that you didn't try it at
> all in your blind faith that it wouldn't work that shows me that you are
> wasting everyone's time here.

Actually, no, I didn't try it at all because I shouldn't have to. If 
the question's Cygwin-related and the answer's not in the FAQ it 
should be fine to ask on the list. If it's not fine to ask on the 
list (but is Cygwin-related) it should be in the FAQ. I'm not going 
to double the work load by searching in two places for things, and 
I'm not going to encourage leaving things out of the FAQ by not 
asking questions on the list that aren't in the FAQ.

> No, it's not your fault. That particular section was added on 14 September
> 2000, almost two years ago, and I don't think you can be expected to
> update your documentation that often.

I have a more recent version than that. It doesn't say anything about 
how to fix the problem. It just says that it can be a problem. Which 
it apparently isn't, except perhaps for gdb.

> And please let's not hear the tired
> story about how it doesn't tell you what to do. There are many books and
> courses available on how to do things like edit /etc/profile and read
> README files.

I question your motives. You seem to be withholding information from 
me and you or someone else is leaving it out of the FAQ even, and 
when the information is requested you suggest buying books and 
signing up for courses. These all have in common that someone makes 
money off them. I have no interest in supporting corporate greed, 
however, and try to buy as little as possible. Don't bother 
suggesting non-free references in the future -- it doesn't help me 
and it does make me suspicious of your motives.

Any question that's Cygwin-related whose answer you're not willing to 
give on this list ought to be answered in the FAQ. The FAQ should 
point to general purpose Unix references for stuff that isn't Cygwin-
specific. Those references should be *free* -- both as in speech and 
as in beer -- a URL to a searchable site, preferably. Lastly, 
everyone here should be reasonably forgiving of general unix 
questions here when there was no way for the asker to know the 
question didn't touch on some peculiarity of special circumstance of 
the Cygwin environment.



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