From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Earnie Boyd To: Timothy Reaves , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Total lack of accurate documentation! Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 23:02:00 -0000 Message-ID: <19990225212237.12048.rocketmail@send1e.yahoomail.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-02n/msg00844.html Message-ID: <19990228230200.qvx48UtKeEgSeLDCZmGwY2TPggPdY5YfdqhDQ0uboxk@z> ---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@yahoo.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@sourceware.cygnus.com