Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/10/17/15:17:38
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 08:48:12PM +0200, thomas AT mellman DOT net wrote:
>On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 10:06:21AM -0400, lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com wrote:
>> I'd highly recommend thoroughly exploring the information provided at
>> www.cygwin.com for answers before resorting to any "external" web site for
>> Cygwin information. While there may be good information on Cygwin
>> elsewhere,
>> it's the Cygwin web site that gets the most scrutiny and is a much more
>> reliable source of quality information overall. To be honest, it's a real
>> goal to have this site be the "one-stop shopping" for all your Cygwin needs.
>> Folks who want to disseminate Cygwin information are encouraged to do it
>> at the Cygwin web site. But that's a bit of a different issue. ;-) In any
>> case, the Cygwin community maintains the Cygwin web site only and strives
>> to keep it current, correct, and useful. Other sites are outside our
>> control
>> and in general, not recommended resources.
>
>
>Hmmm, although that's a nice sentiment that I appreciate, I thought
>that I'd seen C. Faylor say that we should be looking at Google for
>answers rather than pestering the list ...
I generally tell people to use the resources at the project web site
when it is a cygwin question. I don't recall telling people to read
documentation elsewhere -- quite the contrary I've frequently asked
people to contribute documentation improvements here.
However, if you want to use google, then, as long as you are vaguely
remembering what has been said, let me refresh your memory: Add a
site:cygwin.com to the search term.
>On a related issue, I can't use the search function in the mail
>archives - it always times out on me ...
Works fine here.
cgf
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