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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>
References: <5DABF7424840D411BE9600508B6621F803794DD9 AT exchukthis02 DOT experian DOT co DOT uk>
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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