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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: Andrew Dalgleish <andrewd@axonet.com.au>
- Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 09:41:37 +1100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timothy Reaves [SMTP:treaves@y11a165.neo.rr.com]
> Sent: 1999 February 25, Thursday 06:13
> To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Total lack of accurate documentation!
>
> 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 / ?
> 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
[Andrew Dalgleish]
You have spaces around your equals sign.
378$ alias dir = ls
bash.exe: alias: `dir' not found
bash.exe: alias: `=' not found
alias ls='ls --color=tty -F'
379$ alias dir=ls
380$
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