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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: FAQ, docs (was: Suggested addition to http://cygwin.com/doc.html) References: User-Agent: XEmacs/Gnus X-Attribution: Jochen X-Face: -%Z4EZ6iY'4m:wiK:!v From: "Jochen =?iso-8859-1?q?K=FCpper?=" Organization: University of North Carolina Date: 28 Nov 2001 15:39:45 -0500 Message-ID: <86r8qipr3i.fsf@bock.chem.unc.edu> Lines: 49 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 15:09:01 -0500 Steve Morris wrote: Steve> I just discovered (thanks to helpfull feedback from this list) Steve> the documentation in /usr/doc. Cygwin homepage --> FAQ --> Q&A --> Where can I get more information? ,---- | Where's the documentation? | | If you have installed Cygwin, you can find lots of documentation in | `/usr/doc/'. Many packages ship with standard documentation, you can | find this in a directory `/usr/doc/package_name'. In addition, some | packages have Cygwin specific instructions in a file | `/usr/doc/Cygwin/package_name.README'. `---- Steve> It would probably help to reference that directory on the doc Steve> web page, or perhaps the package web page or maybe both. Well, the FAQ is linked on the Cygwin doc-page and homepage. Steve> It is now on my list of places to check before posting and Steve> probably should be on everyones. Good. Considering that it is not obvious for everybody to look at the FAQ and/or '/usr/doc' should that be made more prominent to the user? Like adding a message dialog at the end of setup.exe? Maybe only for the first installation, or whenever cygwin.dll get's updated or something like that? Greetings, Jochen - -- Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit http://www.Jochen-Kuepper.de Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité GnuPG key: 44BCCD8E Sex, drugs and rock-n-roll -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6-cygwin-fcn-1 (Cygwin) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt and GnuPG iD8DBQE8BUuRiJ/aUUS8zY4RAiT9AJ9SeFnVnvioyqKtLMjcUbmX5a8ZcQCeOtdt A9dovZc6t4iBawQ4oeoHboQ= =KqPN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/