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From: "Hughes, Bill" <Bill DOT Hughes AT cox DOT co DOT uk>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: md5sum of a CD
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 15:46:54 +0100 
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Sent: 01 September 2003 15:32 From: Corinna Vinschen 
>On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 02:12:32PM +0100, Hughes, Bill wrote:
>> to something like:
>> "Windows NT/W2K/XP additionally support raw devices like floppies, disks,
>> partitions and tapes. These are accessed from Cygwin applications using
>> POSIX device names."
>> 
>> The next para starts "Beginning with Cygwin 1.3.4" so it's apparent that
>> it's a change from previous behaviour.
>
>Uhm, the next para starts with "Up to Cygwin 1.3.3 ...".  Actually I
>didn't want to remove the pointer to some old method involving mount
>points since there might be still people out there using this technique.
>They should know that they should do something as a switch over, therefore
>words as "discouraged".

Actually I cut the whole paragraph starting "Up to Cygwin 1.3.3 ...", hence
'The next para starts "Beginning with Cygwin 1.3.4" '
It probably doesn't format too well in email.
I considered the point about deprecated methods and you could add a footnote
with a link to the old method.
Glad to be of service.


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