Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Dockeen" To: Subject: Re: Mysterious gdb behavior - cygcheck example Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 00:03:55 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 OK, lets suppose I hear about a command, say, cygcheck, and I want to know about it, do I have it, what it is etc. I enter which cygcheck and I get $ which cygcheck /usr/bin/cygcheck Cool, I have it. So what is it? Well, in this case, I lucked out, as entering man cygcheck tells me exactly what I should know. Now, I am honestly curious, do you have it on your machine. Well, going to the Cygwin home page, where there is a link to "Setup Package Search". There, I enter cygcheck. The information returned to me shows that cygcheck comes in in the main cygwin package, so I think you probably have it. Now, I know they have been doing some updating in the Cygwin documentation lately (I tend to be a little different in that I update regularly, and I click through to see what has changed), so it *may* be that the man page stuff is not there in your installation. With respect to search engines, I used to joke that the most useful skill I picked up on my way to my BA was the ability to use an index. On my way through grad school, that turned into a keyword search capability. Now, it's search engines. I use Google most every day, to find out anything from whats wrong with some Python or C++ code, to free radical chemistry, to what companies might be in the market for Ph.D. physicists. If I have a problem with Cygwin, I go there, because it will find (with the help of the browser search) FAQ data, archive data, and mostly, the answer. Finally, on a lighter heavy note, on my work laptop, I have gcc from: djgpp, GNAT and Dev-C++, as well as 3 versions of gcc in Cygwin - base, 3.1 and 3.1.1 - need to get rid of the 3.1 version. The only contention problem I have run into involved GNAT and Cygwin (solved) and GNAT and djgpp (semi-kluged). Goodnight all, Wayne -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/