Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com> List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/> List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs> Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:47:39 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Cc: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin AT yahoo DOT com> Subject: Re: /usr/share/doc/Cygwin (Was Re: sending email from Cygwin) Message-ID: <20040715074739.GB19753@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin AT yahoo DOT com> References: <Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 58 DOT 0407141937171 DOT 29800 AT slinky DOT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> <20040715000156 DOT 81C6084C1E AT pessard DOT research DOT canon DOT com DOT au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040715000156.81C6084C1E@pessard.research.canon.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Jul 15 10:01, you wrote: > On 14 Jul, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > Yep, that would be a very good idea. In particular, it should point out > > that the information in the READMEs in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin takes > > precedence over that in the package READMEs and manpages. > > > > Maybe even an FAQ entry like "I've followed directions in the README / man > > page / info file to the letter, and still can't get the package to work - > > what gives?" (put in this form, it *is* rather frequently asked). :-) > > Can I also suggest that the FAQ's section called "Where can I get more > information? / Where's the documentation?" would be an excellent place > to mention that all the per-package readme files are collected together > in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin? That would be where I'd look first to try to > discover the info. Sounds good to me. Joshua, would you mind to pump up the FAQ with an entry like this? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Co-Project Leader mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/