Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Same code, same script, different results Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:44:30 -0700 Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <007501c4a172$a96aa9e0$b200a8c0@mindcooler> <002201c4a189$1b126b80$b200a8c0@mindcooler> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.9.207.207 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) In-Reply-To: <002201c4a189$1b126b80$b200a8c0@mindcooler> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mikael Åsberg wrote: > Lol, you're right, Igor, that test case was far from minimal. > Should've cut it down, of course. On the other hand, I often see > people cutting away what they think is unrelated code or whatnot, > when, in fact, they are cutting away the cause of their problems when > posting questions. That's why, when posting a minimal illustration of the problem, one needs to test that minimal case to make sure the problem still exists! Often the process of creating or cutting down something to a minimal case enlightens the questioner to the point of discovering the actual problem. I like to call this "doing your homework". > PS. I remember once having the cygwin mailing list in "usenet style > format" in outlook express, but I can't for the life of me remember > what I did. Anyone knows what I'm talking about? DS. You mean news://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin? -- I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are missing! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/