X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Username and Computer Name Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 08:32:38 -0700 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <20120514210137.66526dtb5pmnlatd@www.kalani.com> <87d366872l.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120426 Thunderbird/13.0 In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On 05/15/2012 07:12 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: > >> But since you couldn't type the man bash command, I don't expect you to >> be able to type the more complex man bash | grep -C 3 PS1 command. And >> since you've not been able to read the bash manual, how could I expect >> you to be able to read the extracts? > Harsh, man just harsh; but I understand your point. You should point > the OP to "Unix in a Nutshell" from publisher O'Reily. Not harsh at all. Granted I understand some people are new to this and are very green. But when you are given specific instructions like do a man bash and look for PS1 and it's quite clear you didn't bother to lift a finger in that regard, then you deserve what you call "harsh" treatment. BTW I call it the truth. At a minimum Max should have done man bash and looked for PS1 and reported back something like "I tried that but could not find PS1" or "I read the man bash output and I'm still confused about PS1". Max did none of that. When people refuse to take even minimal steps to help themselves then I have lost a bit of initially bestowed respect. BTW it is my theory that people who typically act in this manner probably (read definitely) suffer the most frustration with their computers in many areas. It's the only thing that still warms my heart. -- Andrew DeFaria If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple