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From: | "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au> |
To: | "Ebrey, Carl" <Carl DOT Ebrey AT uk DOT experian DOT com>, <cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: FIGlet (again) |
Date: | Thu, 13 Dec 2001 09:31:24 +1100 |
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Ebrey, Carl" <Carl DOT Ebrey AT uk DOT experian DOT com> > Yes, I think I might go out on a limb here and say that setup.html isn't > overly clear about some things. I found certain things tricky to get my > head around and my friend, who would call himself a relative newbie to all > things *nix was almost completely baffled :) One thing that we both found > ourselves asking was, "what /is/ a package?" We only really figured it out > because we've installed Cygwin several times and knew that the packages that > are downloaded are tar.bz2s! Patches or even just replacement/additional text are always welcome. No guarantees that we'll always accept them either :}. Rob
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