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Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 17:48:21 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Suggestion for Cygwin User's guide
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On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 11:49:29PM +0200, Andreas Eibach wrote:
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
>To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
>Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 11:34 PM
>Subject: Re: Suggestion for Cygwin User's guide
>
>
>> On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 11:34:53PM +0200, Andreas Eibach wrote:
>>>a small suggestion for
>>>http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html Just stumbled on
>>>this while I had to look up something I'd forgotten meanwhile.
>>>
>>>Wouldn't it make sense to include the article about the CYGWIN
>>>environment variable under 'Setting up Cygwin->Environment Variables'
>>>as well?  A nice side-effect would be to point the user to this
>>>essential variable at an earlier stage instead of placing it between
>>>'Special Filenames' and 'Cygwin Utilities'.
>>>
>>>Just tell me what you think about it.
>>
>>I don't think that the section should be duplicated
>
>Neither do I.  :-) I meant that it should be _moved_ from deep down
>below to the place I mentioned where it catches the user's eye a little
>bit better.

Hmm.  In English the term "as well" as you used it is a synonym for "in
addtion" or "also".  When you said that the article about the CYGWIN
environment variable would be nice under 'Setting up Cygwin->Environment
Variables' as well, I understood this to mean that you wanted the
description in two places.

That's why I suggested that you provide a patch to add a link to the
descriptive location in the setup description.

cgf

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