Soren Andersen:
> ... It amazes me that some folks here are so addicted to
> reacting angrily and acting like superior, stuffy old
> aunts waggling their fingers at disobedient "children",
> that they cannot see what a pointless rut they are in.
Such psychobabble. Go to your room.
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Soren Andersen wrote:
> This is going to be my one and only engagement this week in conversing with
>individuals who have
> been trained in how they think by TV shows.
No need to read further. ^ indicates that this post is a troll.
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This is going to be my one and only engagement this week in conversing with
individuals who have
been trained in how they think by TV shows.
On 18 Jan 2002 at 13:39, twidlar wrote:
> Trying to get them to reverse their decision by trying to make them feel
> guilty or suggesting they need thera
- Original Message -
From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The solution is basically what any twelve year old would provide with
if
> you described problem to them. And the twelve year old's solution
would
> be the correct one -- setup.exe should produce /usr/info/dir.
And we
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 01:39:35PM -0500, twidlar wrote:
>Soren Andersen:
>> I am really, really convinced that if someone finds the constructive
>> proposal I sent in "infuriating", it is entirely their own (fairly
>> important) personal problem, as in: a problem of a spiritual nature (in
>> that
Soren Andersen:
> I am really, really convinced that if someone finds the constructive
> proposal I sent in "infuriating", it is entirely their own (fairly
> important) personal problem, as in: a problem of a spiritual nature (in
> that it pertains to internal states of being, predispositions, and
- Original Message -
From: "Charles Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Should setup.exe *refuse* to install a file called "/usr/info/dir" --
> just to keep us safe? Or is that setting a bad precedent? [Or maybe
> upset can "lint" the packages on sourceware, and refuse to add
> foo-1.2.tar.gz
At 07:40 PM 1/17/2002, Soren Andersen wrote:
>On 16 Jan 2002 at 15:44, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>
> > It just all seems a little pointless to me but maybe I'm missing
> > something. While I'm sure that's not your intent to aggravate the hard
> > working contributors on this list, it'
- Original Message -
From: "Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
..
> their expression). I have gone against my own preferences in design,
to
situation...
Oops!
Rob
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- Original Message -
From: "Soren Andersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On 17 Jan 2002 at 7:54, Robert Collins wrote:
>
>
> > I'm going to ignore your newbie-style clueslessness in the body of
your
> > email, on the assumption that you will follow this advice.
>
> I wish you wouldn't, but its
On 16 Jan 2002 at 15:44, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> It just all seems a little pointless to me but maybe I'm missing
> something. While I'm sure that's not your intent to aggravate the hard
> working contributors on this list, it's important to consider posts of this
> nature with a
On 17 Jan 2002 at 7:54, Robert Collins wrote:
> I'm going to ignore your newbie-style clueslessness in the body of your
> email, on the assumption that you will follow this advice.
I wish you wouldn't, but its up to you.
You are missing the whole point. A newbie isn't going to go and subscribe
Joshua Franklin wrote:
>>OK, I learned a few valuable lessons in the
>>couple of days last month it took me to
>>clue into install-info ("dir is a file?"), and
>>maybe this is more of a "pons asinorum" than
>>an "Instructions for opening are on the inside"
>>situation.
>>
>>That being said, I rea
> OK, I learned a few valuable lessons in the
> couple of days last month it took me to
> clue into install-info ("dir is a file?"), and
> maybe this is more of a "pons asinorum" than
> an "Instructions for opening are on the inside"
> situation.
>
> That being said, I really would have appreciat
Leaving aside whether this is the right forum
to bring up this issue, I'll vote for Soren's
suggestion.
OK, I learned a few valuable lessons in the
couple of days last month it took me to
clue into install-info ("dir is a file?"), and
maybe this is more of a "pons asinorum" than
an "Instructions
Soren, I suggest you subscribe to cygwin-apps, and read the recent
archives (say the last 4 months), and setup.html, before commenting on
what setup.exe does and doesn't do.
I'm going to ignore your newbie-style clueslessness in the body of your
email, on the assumption that you will follow this
At 03:17 PM 1/16/2002, Soren Andersen wrote:
>Hello,
>
>When I try to use `info blah' on my Cygwin system I get the error
>info: dir: No such file or directory
>
>Yes, this in in the FAQ (however, alternatively, not findable by any of 5
>permutations of searches I ran on the List archives, just a
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