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From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)" <garbage_collector AT telia DOT com>
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Subject: RE: Added setup.exe to User's Guide
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 23:35:35 +0100
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> From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu]
--8<--
> IIRC, the only gotcha about using setup's cache on a CD-R was to not put
> it in the root of the CD-R (because of the way Windows omits the "\" from
> the root path, and that confuses setup).  Placing the cache in a
> subdirectory, say, "G:\cygwin" works perfectly fine.

Ok. I didn't catch that one, obviously.


My general point in this thread has been:
 Documentation should include simple pointers and just enough
information on use. Just so that an intelligent beginner can
read the text and find the information he needs.


Background:
 A few years back, when I was a beginner, I found it REAL HARD to
catch the hook - simply because the documentation was so
"beginner-unfriendly" (BUF ;-). I occassionally still have a
hard time finding the correct place in the docs.
 IMHO the docs doesn't need much of a change, just a few words here
and a reference or a pointer there. And this is all it is about...

 Without those *tiny* details, you're out in the cold as beginner.
If you're stubborn enough (I have been told I'm VERY stubborn) you'll
get a hang on it... If you're not... Well...

 Getting more users to the free software world is "A Good Thing"
i.e. a benefit for us all. 
IMHO creating *too* terse docs is counterproductive in this sense.

/Hannu E K Nevalainen, Mariefred, Sweden 

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