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From: "McLeod, John" <mcleod AT drea DOT dnd DOT ca>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: "RTFM'ing": readily accessible user documentation?
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 08:55:42 -0400
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Leaving aside whether this is the right forum
to bring up this issue, I'll vote for Soren's
suggestion.

OK, I learned a few valuable lessons in the
couple of days last month it took me to
clue into install-info ("dir is a file?"), and
maybe this is more of a "pons asinorum" than
an "Instructions for opening are on the inside"
situation.

That being said, I really would have appreciated
a hint about where the documentation lives and
how to get at it.

Thanks, John


-----Original Message-----
From: Soren Andersen [mailto:soren_andersen AT speedymail DOT org]
Sent: Wednesday, 16 January 2002 4:17 p.m.
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: "RTFM'ing": readily accessible user documentation?


Hello,

When I try to use `info blah' on my Cygwin system I get the error
info: dir: No such file or directory
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Couldn't this script [to run install-info], or something like it, be made a
part of Cygwin and 
run each time a setup installation procedure is completed? Couldn't the 
user AT LEAST be prompted to choose whether to run it, or advised that he 
should?
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