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 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: FAQ searching, was: Cygwin under Wine? From: Thomas L Roche Message-ID: Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 13:53:50 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id i2QIsFsS001404 Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:33:52 -0500, "Thomas L Roche" said: >> (BTW: didn't there useta be a "one big FAQ" option, a lá the >> "one big UG"?) Joshua Daniel Franklin Fri, 26 Mar 2004 09:53:56 -0800 > Yes, it's at . I seem to have > borked cygwin.com/faq.html with my last update and the links are > gone. I'll fix that when I get the chance, hopefully this weekend. Thanks in advance: it's a lot easier to search the "one big FAQ". BTW, since we're on the topic: has anyone thought about providing a "simple FAQish search" form? What I mean: when I wanna know something about Cygwin, I gather search terms, then 0 pull up the one big FAQ, and search it (with browser find) 1 pull up the one big UG, and search it (with browser find) 2 archive-search cygwin, cygwin-xfree, etc via their forms ISTMT It Would Be Nice, and not too difficult, to provide * a "FAQish search form" (a textfield and submit button, just like the archive search forms) * that would frontend a script that automated the 3 searches above, and returned a hit page Granted, it would be work, but it would go a long way toward {automating, easing, improving the likelihood that folks will actually} http://cygwin.com/lists.html > check out the FAQ, the documentation, and the bug reporting > guidelines before sending email to a mailing list. or at least 2 outta 3 ... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/