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: "Hannu E K Nevalainen" To: Subject: RE: PATH and HOME in cygwin Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 21:59:56 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <7D036BD3216A084DB1BD9D62BCEAF29049A413@mail1irv.inside.istor.com> > From: Chris Carlson > Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 6:29 PM > I'm just suggesting that we show a little patience to people who may not > be as well versed in Unix as you are. It is the impatient, > condescending tone that gives new Linux users a bad taste for the OS. I > want Linux to crush M$ (at least to the point that they are on equal > footing in the market). Chasing off new users is not going to encourage > that. Ahh... I'm glad to hear that there are more people like me reading this list. I consider myself beeing well versed in how computers work in general terms, I learn fast - as I've been at it for years - still I have problems grasping some of the stuff; though I most of the time know how things usually are set up. I find the man pages very terse, not useful until you know about it already. Other resources often feels either disorganized, using a complex language or a complex - hard to "google" - setup or organization. And if nothing else of the above "fits"; the text describes in terms of assumed prior knowledge - where often _one single additional sentence_ picks up the person being less knowledgable to join the ride. The last thing shouldn't be so very hard to change - thus enabling more people to join the gang: Make open/free software be truly free and open! And last: A feature that hasn't been documented (well) could just as well be unimplemented - when it comes to how usable it is. Source is a language that slants in different ways depending on the writers knowledge, coding and commenting style - to begin with. This never has the potential of feeding "any user" with apropriate input. This one link might be a golden-oldie: $ cat abs-guide.url [InternetShortcut] URL=http://www.cs.unibo.it/~montreso/doc/bash/abs-guide.pdf ... I've yet to check it out thoroughly. Seems a bit aged. /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59+16.37'N, 17+12.60'E --76--> ** on a mailing list; please keep replies on that particular list ** -- printf("LocalTime: UTC+%02d\n",(DST)? 2:1); -- --END OF MESSAGE-- -- 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/