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Re: Problem with dd to raw disks
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 09:16:22AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:44:38AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>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? ;-)
>>
>>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?
>
>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.
Absolutely agree, as long as there is a howto on reading both the FAQ
and the User's Guide. Maybe the user's guide could also mention the howto.
cgf
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