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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: md5sum of a CD
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 14:31:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030901143135.GF1888@cygbert.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4989AFD7505BD611961B0002A5DA3E740382BDF1@NNHML2>

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".

> I hope the feedback is useful, even if you don't agree with the suggestion.
> Thanks again.

Yes, it was helpful.

Thanks,
Corinna

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-01 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-01 13:12 Hughes, Bill
2003-09-01 14:31 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-09-01 14:47 Hughes, Bill
2003-09-01 12:36 Hughes, Bill
2003-09-01 12:57 ` Corinna Vinschen
2003-09-01 11:22 Hughes, Bill
2003-09-01 12:13 ` Corinna Vinschen
2003-09-01 10:37 Vince Hoffman
2003-09-01 16:04 ` Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)
2003-09-01 10:20 Hughes, Bill
2003-09-01  9:01 romildo
2003-09-01 10:06 ` Corinna Vinschen
2003-09-01 15:42 ` Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)
2003-09-01 15:56   ` Corinna Vinschen
2003-09-01 18:15     ` Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)

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