From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9836 invoked by alias); 1 Sep 2003 13:12:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 9829 invoked from network); 1 Sep 2003 13:12:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nnhmn2.cox.co.uk) (62.172.235.192) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 1 Sep 2003 13:12:43 -0000 Received: from nnhims (unverified) by nnhmn2.cox.co.uk (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.1) with ESMTP id for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 14:14:32 +0100 Received: by nnhims with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 1 Sep 2003 14:14:32 +0100 Message-ID: <4989AFD7505BD611961B0002A5DA3E740382BDF1@NNHML2> From: "Hughes, Bill" To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" Subject: RE: md5sum of a CD Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 13:12:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00024.txt.bz2 Sent: 01 September 2003 13:57 From: Corinna Vinschen >Thank you for your help. > >I've changed the description how to access raw devices. The way how to >mount these devices is entirely gone. Please read it again and report >back, if the description of raw devices is a bit clearer now. Definitely better, but why not change: "Windows NT/W2K/XP additionally support raw devices like floppies, disks, partitions and tapes. These are accessed from Cygwin applications using POSIX device names which are supported in two different ways. Up to Cygwin 1.3.3 the only way to access those devices was to mount the Win32 device names to a POSIX device name but this usage is discouraged since Cygwin 1.3.4 and only kept for backward compatibility." 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. You could even go for : "Windows NT/W2K/XP additionally support raw devices like floppies, disks, partitions and tapes. These are accessed from Cygwin applications using POSIX device names, beginning with Cygwin 1.3.4 these raw devices are accessible ...." I hope the feedback is useful, even if you don't agree with the suggestion. Thanks again. *********************************************************************** This e-mail transmission is strictly confidential and intended solely for the person or organisation to whom it is addressed. It may contain privileged and confidential information and if you are not the intended recipient, you must not copy, distribute or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this email in error, please reply to the sender as soon as possible and delete the message. Please note that we are able to, and reserve the right to, monitor e-mail communications passing through our network. The views expressed in this email are not that of the company unless specified within the message. The inclusion of this footnote indicates that the mail message and any attachments have been checked for the presence of known viruses. If you have any comments regarding our policy please direct them to postmaster@cox.co.uk *********************************************************************** -- 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/