Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <19990225212237.12048.rocketmail@send1e.yahoomail.com> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:22:37 -0800 (PST) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Subject: Re: Total lack of accurate documentation! To: Timothy Reaves , cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ---Timothy Reaves wrote: > > I downloaded this product, and initially said WOW. That changesd > meaning as I began to look around at the documentation. Sad. There is > much missing and a lot of what is there is outright wrong! > > Does anyone know if this is due to rapid changes in the product, or > slow documentation people? I have tried to use the search feature to > search the past mails, but their search engine is broke due to a mount > problem it looks like. > > There are two things I'd like to know off the bat: > 1) If I have /tmp mounted on d:\temp, and can do cd /tmp, why does > /tmp not show up when I > do a ls -la / ? The filesystem emulation is broken on this point. Hopefully it will be fixed by the next release. Did you try it with a mount point created at /? I.E.: mkdir /tmp; mount d:\\temp /tmp Although this will change the `ls -la /' to display the /tmp if you `ls -la tmp' it will display the mount point directory which will be empty instead of the mounted directory. > 2) I have the following line in my .bashrc file, copied from linux. > alias dir = 'ls -la --color=yes' > when I start bash, I get the following errors: > bash: alias: 'dir' not found > bash: alias: '=' not found > Remove the spaces. bash requires: alias dir='ls -la --color=yes' == - \\||// -------------------o0O0--Earnie--0O0o------------------- -- earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com -- -- http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html -- ----------------------ooo0O--O0ooo---------------------- PS: Newbie's, you should visit my page. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com