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Re: Total lack of accurate documentation!
- To: Timothy Reaves <treaves@y11a165.neo.rr.com>, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
- Subject: Re: Total lack of accurate documentation!
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:22:37 -0800 (PST)
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---Timothy Reaves <treaves@y11a165.neo.rr.com> wrote:
>
> I downloaded this product, and initially said WOW. That changesd
> meaning as I began to look around at the documentation. Sad. There
is
> much missing and a lot of what is there is outright wrong!
>
> Does anyone know if this is due to rapid changes in the product,
or
> slow documentation people? I have tried to use the search feature to
> search the past mails, but their search engine is broke due to a mount
> problem it looks like.
>
> There are two things I'd like to know off the bat:
> 1) If I have /tmp mounted on d:\temp, and can do cd /tmp, why does
> /tmp not show up when I
> do a ls -la / ?
The filesystem emulation is broken on this point. Hopefully it will
be fixed by the next release.
Did you try it with a mount point created at /?
I.E.: mkdir /tmp; mount d:\\temp /tmp
Although this will change the `ls -la /' to display the /tmp if you
`ls -la tmp' it will display the mount point directory which will be
empty instead of the mounted directory.
> 2) I have the following line in my .bashrc file, copied from
linux.
> alias dir = 'ls -la --color=yes'
> when I start bash, I get the following errors:
> bash: alias: 'dir' not found
> bash: alias: '=' not found
>
Remove the spaces. bash requires: alias dir='ls -la --color=yes'
==
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