James, On Thursday 19 May 2005 10:15, James D. Parra wrote:
Go back and read his question. He's running on Windows. Why did he even think a SuSE list would have the answer to the question? In this case, there does happen to be considerable overlap, but in general there's a lot of stuff on Cygwin that is strictly a idiosyncratic to that environment. Should we be entertaining all such questions just because the Gnu tools happen to run on both SuSE and Cygwin?
"This is not a SuSE question .. more of a UNIX question. I have encountered a output from a ls -l command that i have ever seen before ..."
The question is not a Cygwin specific question and anyone on the this list could benefit from the post. This list isn't a forum for solely Suse specific questions. Anyone should feel welcome asking a Linux question here as with other Linux distribution list.
Besides, you are overlooking the idea of "openness" associated with Gnu/Linux and the concept of sharing knowledge. Luckily for the poster, there were people on this list who were considerate enough to help him out.
Sorry, but that's all wrong. If you take that approach, virtually nothing's off-topic. The volume here is more than high enough. That's why it's necessary to be very specific about a lists's charter. This list is about SuSE Linux (in English). That said, we tolerate quite a bit of latitude as it is, but questions about the behavior of programs running on Windows? How does that conceivably fit in here? Answer: It doesn't.
~James
Randall Schulz