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: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: ssmtp man page (Was: Re: sending email from Cygwin) Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 13:43:18 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-reply-to: Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Jul 2004 12:43:18.0453 (UTC) FILETIME=[CD279650:01C46CC4] > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: 16 July 2004 20:12 > > > 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 > > > > Don't make it overly complicated. `less > /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/ssmtp*' > > is enough. And telling people that /usr/share/doc/Cygwin contains > > Cygwin specific README files isn't that hard, really. > > > > Corinna > > Yep, nice choice of words here. *Telling* them is definitely not hard. > Getting them to do it before sending questions to the list is. :-) > > Actually, there's an interesting point in this thread. Would > it be a good > idea to have a reference to the Cygwin-specific README in the > manpages for > every Cygwin package that has one (say, in the SEE ALSO > section)? > Another possible place to mention the Cygwin-specific READMEs > is in the "man cygwin" page. :-) Another possibility would be for the very last dialog in setup.exe, the one that says "download/install complete", to also say in very big letters "For Cygwin-specific documentation, see /usr/share/doc/Cygwin". It could maybe even have a tickbox to automatically open that window in explorer... cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/