Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 13:38:47 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Problem with dd to raw disks Message-ID: <20040301183847.GA26267@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20040301144712 DOT GN1587 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <6 DOT 0 DOT 1 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 20040301113231 DOT 039dbec0 AT 127 DOT 0 DOT 0 DOT 1> <20040301164437 DOT GA18339 AT redhat DOT com> <20040301171622 DOT GA2832 AT efn DOT org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040301171622.GA2832@efn.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 09:16:22AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >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. Absolutely agree, as long as there is a howto on reading both the FAQ and the User's Guide. Maybe the user's guide could also mention the howto. cgf -- 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/