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To: Michael Schaap <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Virus Found 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Sep 2001 00:00:34 +0200."
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From: Jon Cast <jcast AT ou DOT edu>
Reply-to: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:56:54 -0500

Michael Schaap <cygwin AT mscha DOT com> wrote on Tue, 11 Sep 2001 00:00:34 +0200:

> Or how about a "tip of the day" feature in cygwin1.dll that shows
> one of these in a message box every time the dll is loaded?  :-)
> Instructions on how to turn that off will NOT be given in the
> mailing list, but can only be found in the documentation and in the
> FAQ.

I don't think this is as good an idea as the `fortune' idea (or maybe
hacking together a fortune GUI).  Simply put, you DON'T want to hear
from the kernel if you can help it.  Furthermore, this type of kernel
message, especially, implies one of three things: inflexibility in the
UI (i.e., getting a Win32 message box when launching an X app), bloat
in the kernel (``somehow'' dwiming what GUI library the user wants
(Win32 or X), and what toolkit an X user wants, and ...), or a
/really/ clever hack.

Finally, as a developer I would prefer this kernel message be left
out.  I plan to use Cygwin as the base for some commercial apps.  I
want beginning users of those apps to be able to mostly ignore
Cygwin's presence, but I don't see how they can ignore it if Cygwin
pops up a ``tip of the day'' message (apparently) sporadically when
they run one of the programs.  I can accept having to modify Cygwin's
settings to suppress the message, but I would rather modify
/etc/profile than some kernel setting :)

>  - Michael

Jon Cast

p.s.  List magnates: don't worry; I'll do everything in my power to
make sure users using my setup of Cygwin don't think of posting to
this list.

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