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From: "Ken Thompson" <ken DOT thompson AT gtri DOT gatech DOT edu>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Problem with dd to raw disks
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 12:23:51 -0500
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What really bugs me is people who complain instead of doing something.  Quit
complaining and do something about it. This is open source after all.

Ken


> -----Original Message-----
> From:  Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
> Subject: Re: Problem with dd to raw disks
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:44:38AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:35:40AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote:
> > >Pah! The User's Guide.  That's just a document full of useful
> > >information.  Why would anyone want to read that?  ;-)
> >
> > Maybe we need a howto on reading the user's guide.  It should certainly
> > be in the FAQ that people should read the documentation.  How
> would people
> > know that they should read the documentation unless it was spelled out
> > somewhere in black and white?
>
> You know, the thing that really bugs me about cygwin is the half-baked
> attempts at documentation.  A FAQ entry suggesting reading the User's
> Guide is completely useless unless the User's Guide tells people to
> read the FAQ.
>
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