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: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 21:51:04 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: API Reference documentation Message-ID: <20030725015104.GA27805@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20030725012322.GA23857@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 09:45:50PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 09:07:40PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> >On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Carlo Florendo wrote: >> > >> >> Hello David, >> >> >> >> >From: "David Power" >> >> >> >> > Please could you make the API documentation available >> >> > as a downloadable html or pdf file. >> >> >> >> It is. The link to the API appears in the main page of cygwin.com :-) >> >> >> >> > I don't have permanent access to the web. I download >> >> > what I can when I can and use it on a stand alone >> >> > workstation. >> >> > >> >> > It would be very useful to me to have the API >> >> > reference at my fingertips for whenever I needed it. >> >> >> >> Get it from http://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/cygwin-api.html :-) >> >> >> >> Best Regards, >> >> Carlo >> > >> >David, >> > >> >Just to expand on this a little bit, the above is not as mean as it >> >sounds. Try 'wget -r http://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/cygwin-api.html'. ;-) >> >> Or, just install the cygwin-doc package. > >D'oh!!! However, the cygwin-doc package could itself benefit from better >documentation. ;-) There is no mention of cygwin-api in any of the >readmes. What would you expect to find in a cygwin doc package other than documentation about cygwin? It's also listed in the info dir file, just like all other info documentation on cygwin or any other UNIX-like system. Just typing 'info' shows you what cygwin doc info is available. And please don't tell me that there needs to be a a README pointing people at info... -- 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/