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Re: /dev/null [Was: xargs still nok?]


On Sep  8 11:35, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 05:32:02PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Sep  8 11:23, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 11:16:11AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >>>On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Public Mailing Lists wrote:
> >>>>It might be interesting to know what you have to do in order to get
> >>>>/dev.
> >>>
> >>><http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#id4676548>.
> >>
> >>And, then there's always this ancient thread:
> >>
> >>http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-09/threads.html#00114
> >
> >What?  Asking people to read the mailing list archive?  That's even
> >more heartless!
> 
> I know we set a pretty high bar for people, expecting them to actually
> know cygwin before offering advice.  It does seem cruel to make them
> read documentation and past discussions before they start making
> definitive statements about how things work.
> 
> It may even be un-American! Don't we guarantee the right to free speech?
> How do we dare try to censor someone by suggesting that they should
> educate themselves?

And then again, we didn't even think of the children.


Corinna


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