From: "Hughes, Bill" <Bill.Hughes@cox.co.uk>
To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: md5sum of a CD
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 14:47:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4989AFD7505BD611961B0002A5DA3E740382BDF7@NNHML2> (raw)
Sent: 01 September 2003 15:32 From: Corinna Vinschen
>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".
Actually I cut the whole paragraph starting "Up to Cygwin 1.3.3 ...", hence
'The next para starts "Beginning with Cygwin 1.3.4" '
It probably doesn't format too well in email.
I considered the point about deprecated methods and you could add a footnote
with a link to the old method.
Glad to be of service.
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2003-09-01 14:47 Hughes, Bill [this message]
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2003-09-01 13:12 Hughes, Bill
2003-09-01 14:31 ` Corinna Vinschen
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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