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 Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 21:59:59 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: ssmtp man page (Was: Re: sending email from cygwin) Message-ID: <20040717015959.GC27631@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20040715081800 DOT GC19753 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <20040716020103 DOT B6B8584C87 AT pessard DOT research DOT canon DOT com DOT au> <20040716212532 DOT GA2984 AT efn DOT org> <20040717012536 DOT GA27631 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 09:53:44PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 02:25:32PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >> >On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 12:01:03PM +1000, luke.kendall wrote: >> >> This is a usability issue. It's hard enough to teach people to type: >> >> >> >> man >> >> >> >> teaching them to type: >> >> >> >> more /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/ssmtp-0.x.y/README.ssmtp-0.x.y >> > >> >I'm partial to: >> > >> > cygcheck -l ssmtp|fgrep README|xargs less >> > >> >myself. Works for other packages, too. >> >> Hey, nice use of tools. Can we get a gold star here for a clever use of >> utilities? This is something that I'll be using myself in the future. > >You sure can. Just for the archives, though (not to downplay the original >achievement), this will also display any other READMEs contained in the >package. If you only want the Cygwin-specific one, this incantation might >be more appropriate: > >cygcheck -l ssmtp|grep "doc/Cygwin/.*README"|xargs less Thanks for the clarification. -- 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/