Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 19:40:11 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: Ian Johnson Subject: Re: [postmaster@sources.redhat.com] This is all very silly... Message-ID: <20030607234011.GA31462@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, Ian Johnson References: <000201c32d1a$7682a960$15a25ad1@Ian> <20030607183129.GA26572@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030607183129.GA26572@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 02:31:29PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >[reply-to set to cygwin SPLAT cygwin] >On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 10:29:20AM -0700, Ian Johnson wrote: >>...do you want people to use cygwin or not? >>So off I go looking for the sources to compile and lo and behold I find >>a link ( http://cygwin.com/packages/ ) to what I think should be the >>source for the man package and what do I get: > >You are either confused about the term "source code" or you are unable to >determine what "source code" is. This *is* the listing for the source >code. > >> man: Man, apropos and whatis (source code) >> Mon Dec 16 17:16:05 2002 17982 man-1.5j-2/COPYING >> Mon Dec 16 17:16:05 2002 807 man-1.5j-2/HISTORY >> Mon Dec 16 17:16:05 2002 2861 man-1.5j-2/INSTALL >> Mon Dec 16 17:16:05 2002 990 man-1.5j-2/LSM >> Mon Dec 16 17:16:06 2002 2357 man-1.5j-2/Makefile >> Mon Dec 16 17:16:05 2002 2365 man-1.5j-2/Makefile.in > >>BUT KNOW SOURCE CODE. What is up with that? I wanted to apologize for *my* cluelessness here. The original poster was looking for source code and knew what source code was. I ass*u*me*d that he didn't. I was completely wrong in my interpretation of this part of his message. To answer this question: the source code is downloadable via setup.exe or from the mirror sites. cgf -- Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. Special for spam email harvesters: send email to aaaspam@sourceware.org and be permanently blocked from mailing lists at sources.redhat.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/