Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 11:26:14 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: newbie shell-users howto, guide, cheatsheet, or reference? Message-ID: <20030629152614.GA28799@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20030626192146.GE5870@ganymede> <20030627193140.GS22695@ganymede> <20030629091232.GU22695@ganymede> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030629091232.GU22695@ganymede> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 10:12:32AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: >on Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 08:31:40PM +0100, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: >> on Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 10:55:17PM +0200, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) (garbage_collector@telia.com) wrote: >> > > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf >> > > Of Karsten M. Self >> > >> > > - The shell. Bash. >> > > - Directories. '/' rather than '\'. Cygwin naming conventions. >> > > Accessing legacy MS Windows paths. >> > > - Essential commands. Likely: ls, cd, pwd, rm, less, cat. >> > > - Getting help. man, apropos. >> > >> > IIRC there is a HOWTO with a certain Linux distro (they use a Red Hat as a >> > logo ;) that should fulfill at least part of your needs (can't remember the >> > name right now... MSDOS-HOWTO?). >> >> Useful, but not sufficiently focused. >> >> Given my research and responses (both on and off list), I'll be putting >> together something shortly at http://twiki.iwethey.org/, which the >> Cygwin project will be free to use. > >For better or worse, started as: > > http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/CygwinEndUserQuickReference > > >Peace. Rather than throwing your efforts out there and expecting "the cygwin project" to use them, why don't you investigate what is required to change the actual documentation? A getting started section could be added to the actual documentation. As a general rule, your efforts will have a much wider audience and will benefit more people if you direct them towards the actual distribution rather than putting them on a personal web page. cgf -- Please use the resources at cygwin.com rather than sending personal email. Special for spam email harvesters: send email to aaaspam@sourceware.org and be permanently blocked from mailing lists at sources.redhat.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/