X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 13:40:38 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Uninstalling Cygwin Message-ID: <20080208184038.GA2996@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20080208152939 DOT GD31070 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <47AC9E75 DOT 3050709 AT free DOT fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47AC9E75.3050709@free.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 07:24:53PM +0100, Sylvain RICHARD wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 11:24:59AM +0100, PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE wrote: >>>Asunto: RE: Uninstalling Cygwin >>>Wonderful, mer?i beaucoup, Sylvain, that worked. Didn't realise this >>>could be so easy. Cygwin documentation / FAQ people, maybe this would >>>be wise to incorporate somewhere in the uninstall documentation on your >>>website, as I suspect all users running winXP and higher experience >>>these problems when having chacged file ownership. Thanks again. >>> >>>For this , include the FAQ in a Wiki is a good option. One also can >>>include user tips. >> >>You should have paid closer attention to the discussion. This would be >>just the kind of confusion we don't need. Having people update the >>"FAQ" with a "tip" that was *already* in the "FAQ" would just cause >>more confusion. > >I have to say that I agree with cgf. I should have looked in the FAQ >before, it would have saved some typing. I have had exactly the same >issue before and perhaps didn't find the answer at that time. People >who come from a UNIX background tend to use chown or chmod but may have >already deleted chown.exe and chmod.exe. Perhaps adding the exact >cacls invocation in the FAQ would be helpful Good point. Do you (or anyone) want to suggest some wording for that section of the FAQ? cgf -- 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/