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Re: Problem with dd to raw disks
Oh well, I thought I'd made my intent impossible to mistake.
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Entire discussion reformatted with top-quoting for your convenience
(though I refrained from leaving the list-trailers in).
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On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 12:23:51PM -0500, Ken Thompson wrote:
> What really bugs me is people who complain instead of doing something. Quit
> complaining and do something about it. This is open source after all.
>
> Ken
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
> > Subject: Re: Problem with dd to raw disks
> >
> > You know, the thing that really bugs me about cygwin is the half-baked
> > attempts at documentation. A FAQ entry suggesting reading the User's
> > Guide is completely useless unless the User's Guide tells people to
> > read the FAQ.
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:44:38AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > >
> > > Maybe we need a howto on reading the user's guide. It should certainly
> > > be in the FAQ that people should read the documentation. How
> > would people
> > > know that they should read the documentation unless it was spelled out
> > > somewhere in black and white?
> > >
> > > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:35:40AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote:
> > > >Pah! The User's Guide. That's just a document full of useful
> > > >information. Why would anyone want to read that? ;-)
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