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Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 17:34:31 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Suggestion for Cygwin User's guide
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On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 11:34:53PM +0200, Andreas Eibach wrote:
>a small suggestion for http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html
>Just stumbled on this while I had to look up something I'd forgotten
>meanwhile.
>
>Wouldn't it make sense to include the article about the CYGWIN environment
>variable under 'Setting up Cygwin->Environment Variables' as well?
>A nice side-effect would be to point the user to this essential variable at
>an earlier stage instead of placing it between 'Special Filenames' and
>'Cygwin Utilities'.
>
>Just tell me what you think about it.

I don't think that the section should be duplicated but I do think that
the setup part should have a link to the detailed CYGWIN description.

I'd appreciate it if you could provide a patch to do this, in fact.

cgf

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