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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 12:23:15 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Adding Cygwin FAQ to distro
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In-Reply-To: <8924-Thu19Oct2000145612+0100-starksb@ebi.ac.uk>; from starksb@ebi.ac.uk on Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 02:56:12PM +0100

On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 02:56:12PM +0100, David Starks-Browning wrote:
>On Wednesday 18 Oct 00, Christopher Faylor writes:
>> Ok.  Actually, maybe this could be part of a cygwin-docs distro.  We
>> could include all of the cygwin documentation there.
>
>OK (although I am in principle opposed to anything that creates more
>work for me).  This should probably be something like latest/docs with
>two tar files, one containing the User's Guide and API Reference, and
>the other containing the FAQ.  I say that because the former hardly
>ever changes, while the latter would change every week or so.
>
>But this is not a high priority for me.  I would rather work on
>getting the FAQ into better shape *before* hundreds (thousands?) of
>copies get mirrored and installed all over the place.

Good point.

I wasn't thinking that you'd have to do this.  I could probably drop this
into the directory that I use for net releases and just generate tar balls
from there.  I could even do it on a weekly basis, if there was a need
for this.

cgf

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