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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 00:51:37 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Gold star for Joshua and a suggestion for setup documentation
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On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 11:23:43PM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 12:09:25AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> I just wanted to put in a kudo for Joshua Franklin and his work on the
>> cygwin documentation.  His latest setup documentation installment is
>> really wonderful.  It is just what we needed.
>
>Thanks! I don't really know why I never thought about doing it before.
>
>> 
>> It is so good that I would like to suggest that maybe it should subsume
>> (mostly) my words at http://cygwin.com/download.html and that I should
>> get rid of this link entirely or just point at the correct place in the
>> documentation.
>
>Sounds fine to me. I do think we should at least leave a link to the
>installer for veteran users. (Or do we all type in 'cygwin.com/setup.exe'?)

Yep.  That's what I always do.  I just thought it would be nice for
people to immediately see that there was documentation before they
installed.

cgf

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