Mailing-List:	contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm
Sender:	cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Delivered-To:	mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Date:	Mon, 28 Jun 1999 12:17:44 -0400
Message-Id:	<199906281617.MAA15020@envy.delorie.com>
From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To:	DMcCunney AT roper DOT com
CC:	cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
In-reply-to:	<65CAA822B707D211AD430008C7F40FED1F8553@EXCHANGERSW2>
	(DMcCunney AT roper DOT com)
Subject:	Re: A new user of cygwin and unix based system
References:	<65CAA822B707D211AD430008C7F40FED1F8553 AT EXCHANGERSW2>

> If I might make a couple of suggestions:

Suggestions are always welcome!

> First, you might wish to post a mini-FAQ here on a regular basis.

Hmmm... I already post a djgpp mini-faq; I suppose I could do a cygwin
mini-faq also.

> I got the impression from reading your posts here that you were officially
> involved with Cygwin, for instance, but this is the first post of yours
> signed with your title that I recall seeing.

For the record, Chris is the manager of the cygwin group, and I'm the
only engineer in the group (my official title is "senior engineer").
Chris also manages another group in Cygnus, so I'm the only true
full-time employee on cygwin.  Our responsibilities include not only
cygwin development, but also supporting development by other groups on
the windows platform and doing other windows-related internal
projects.  I'm also working on our next "GNUPro" release.

> (I found out about this mailing list from a FAQ included with a cygwin
> distribution, but the address given for subscribing to the list was _wrong_,
> and bounced with an "unknown recipient" error.  I got pointed in the right
> direction by a chap on the NTEmacs mailing list.)

That would be the old gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com address, which I thought
would bounce with a *useful* message.

> Second, please consider adding either a stand-alone info reader or a groff
> port to the distribution.

I have those on my machine.  Porting was actually pretty easy; you
might try it yourself as an exercise.  Texinfo just needed a makefile
tweak (add .exe to makedoc), GNU groff built without changes, and you
can get "man" sources from any linux distribution - no changes needed
there either.  Our goal (well, mine at least) is to make cygwin
compatible enough that "./configure; make; make install" works just as
often (and as well) as on Unix.  In this case, it almost does.

--
Want to unsubscribe from this list?
Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com

- Raw text -