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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 23:49:57 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Virus Found
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In-Reply-To: <20010910173701.A17576@redhat.com>; from cgf@redhat.com on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 05:37:01PM -0400

On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 05:37:01PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >The more obvious, the better!  Do you think you can get this entry to
> >flash in front for of user's when they install? ;-)
> 
> You've got a smiley there, but I think that this actually might be a good idea.
> I'd like to add more words to the setup process like:
> 
> "Turn off your virus software" and "Hey!  Check out /usr/doc for more info."

Yeah! Instead of the usual advertising lies about the downsides
of the software you're just installing (e.g. "The new activation
feature helps you to avoid copyright infringements"), Cygwin's
setup would give some useful hints to the user:

    "NEVER move your Cygwin DLL into your Windows directory!"

    "Wanna use ssh? Check out /usr/doc/Cygwin/openssh.README
     and start ssh-user-config!"

    "On NT, Cygwin uses the Windows password, on 9x, use `crypt'
     to generate passwords to put into /etc/passwd."

    etc...

I like the idea :-)

Corinna

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