From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timothy Reaves To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: RE: Total lack of accurate documentation! Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 12:37:00 -0000 Message-id: <36D463C4.E65C2961@y11a165.neo.rr.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-02/msg00797.html WOW! First, it's nice to know that this list is populated by so many thin skinned jerks that don't mind typing off a quick e-mail who's contents they'd NEVER say to someone's face! I have no problem helping write documentation. First I need to learn the product. This would be facilitated by easier access to the mailing list except my mail server refuses to let me connect to the cygwin one. Something about a known source of spam or some such. Never seen that before. As I can not actually respond the e-mail vie the 'reply' function, I'll try this. Relating to what DJ Delorie said: thanks for the note. Having only one person handling documentation for a product this size must really suck! I'll try and compile a list of stuff I've found to be inaccurate and forward them. Until then, is there anything in particular you could use some help with? As two the two problems I mentioned, yes, the alias was fixed by removing the spaces. Several people mentioned the mount issue, though I didn't understand fully their intent. If I do a 'mount' I can see where d:\temp is mounted to /tmp. I can cd to /tmp. But /tmp does not show up in a ls -la. So I tried a few of the suggestions. I umounted /tmp, did a mkdir /tmp, mount d:\temp /tmp, then a ls -la /. I got an error ls: /tmp: no such file or directory. I don't understand this either. I did not do a ls -la /tmp. Just /. So I umounted /tmp, deleted /tmp, and now nothing relating to /tmp works. I can no longer even do a mkdir /tmp as I get the error - mkdir: cannot make directory '/tmp': No such file or directory. Under unix this never would have been an issue, so apparently I just don't understand the port. Can someone point out where I screwed up? -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Timothy Reaves To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: RE: Total lack of accurate documentation! Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 23:02:00 -0000 Message-ID: <36D463C4.E65C2961@y11a165.neo.rr.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-02n/msg00796.html Message-ID: <19990228230200.stvTIcjiabQCJFEjx_tsvDp0asADkI2CT7Y4FlmlCwM@z> WOW! First, it's nice to know that this list is populated by so many thin skinned jerks that don't mind typing off a quick e-mail who's contents they'd NEVER say to someone's face! I have no problem helping write documentation. First I need to learn the product. This would be facilitated by easier access to the mailing list except my mail server refuses to let me connect to the cygwin one. Something about a known source of spam or some such. Never seen that before. As I can not actually respond the e-mail vie the 'reply' function, I'll try this. Relating to what DJ Delorie said: thanks for the note. Having only one person handling documentation for a product this size must really suck! I'll try and compile a list of stuff I've found to be inaccurate and forward them. Until then, is there anything in particular you could use some help with? As two the two problems I mentioned, yes, the alias was fixed by removing the spaces. Several people mentioned the mount issue, though I didn't understand fully their intent. If I do a 'mount' I can see where d:\temp is mounted to /tmp. I can cd to /tmp. But /tmp does not show up in a ls -la. So I tried a few of the suggestions. I umounted /tmp, did a mkdir /tmp, mount d:\temp /tmp, then a ls -la /. I got an error ls: /tmp: no such file or directory. I don't understand this either. I did not do a ls -la /tmp. Just /. So I umounted /tmp, deleted /tmp, and now nothing relating to /tmp works. I can no longer even do a mkdir /tmp as I get the error - mkdir: cannot make directory '/tmp': No such file or directory. Under unix this never would have been an issue, so apparently I just don't understand the port. Can someone point out where I screwed up? -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com