Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3BA27277.90009@home.com> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 17:11:19 -0400 From: "David A. Cobb" Organization: Excite/AtHome User on Cox Cable User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Schaap , Cygwin Library General Discussion Subject: Re: Virus Found References: <20010910173701.A17576@redhat.com> <4.3.1.2.20010910142824.02138460@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <4.3.1.2.20010910144037.02f7f148@pop.ma.ultranet.com> <20010910173701.A17576@redhat.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20010910235917.05096e80@imap.local.mscha.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Michael Schaap wrote: > At 23:49 10-9-2001, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> Yeah! Instead of the usual advertising lies about the downsides >> of the software you're just installing (e.g. "The new activation >> feature helps you to avoid copyright infringements"), Cygwin's >> setup would give some useful hints to the user: >> >> "NEVER move your Cygwin DLL into your Windows directory!" >> >> "Wanna use ssh? Check out /usr/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README >> and start ssh-user-config!" >> >> "On NT, Cygwin uses the Windows password, on 9x, use `crypt' >> to generate passwords to put into /etc/passwd." >> >> etc... > > > Or how about a "tip of the day" feature in cygwin1.dll that shows one of > these in a message box every time the dll is loaded? :-) GAAKKKKKK ! I hope that's a joke. Tip-of-the-day messages are the biggest insult going. I don't need my software to say "Hey, A*****e, you can open a file by using the Control+O keyboard shortcut." If I want to be insulted, there are plenty of people I can call. > Instructions on how to turn that off will NOT be given in the mailing > list, but can only be found in the documentation and in the FAQ. > > - Michael > -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate, All around nice guy. New PGP key 09/13/2001: : : Fingerprint=0x{E7C6_4EE2_6B75_5BA3_C52E__77FA_63C3_9366_DCFB_229B} "By God's Grace I am a Christian man, by my actions a great sinner." --The Way of a Pilgrim, R. M. French [tr.] Potentially Viral Software is any software for which you are not allowed to examine the source. Do not buy or use Potentially Viral Software! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/