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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 21:25:36 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: ssmtp man page (Was: Re: sending email from cygwin) <gold star>
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On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 02:25:32PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 12:01:03PM +1000, luke.kendall wrote:
>> This is a usability issue.  It's hard enough to teach people to type:
>> 
>> 	man <command-name>
>> 
>> teaching them to type:
>> 
>> 	more /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/ssmtp-0.x.y/README.ssmtp-0.x.y
>
>I'm partial to:
> 
>   cygcheck -l ssmtp|fgrep README|xargs less
>
>myself.  Works for other packages, too.

Hey, nice use of tools.  Can we get a gold star here for a clever use of
utilities?  This is something that I'll be using myself in the future.

cgf

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