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From: "Dave Korn" <dk AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Absence of mkgroup and mkpasswd man pages
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 20:06:02 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Robert Thorpe
> Sent: 05 October 2004 19:41

> > > Unfortunately, though, "man mkgroup" or "man mkpasswd" do 
> not work, they're are no man pages for these utilities.
> > 
> > Install the cygwin-doc package.
>  
> Thanks, that was quite easy.
> 
> (BTW, personally, I think that if cygwin is going to give 
> that message the first time it starts, then cygwin-doc's 
> should be a default package, or the man pages should tag 
> along with mkgroup/mkpasswd)


  I'd go so far as to say that the docs should not only be a default package, it
should be a compulsory package that can't be uninstalled, only updated.  Or
perhaps it should just rolled into the cygwin base package.  Whatever, there's no
good reason to allow people to install an un-documented cygwin, they'll only end
up coming here with questions they would have known the answers to if they'd had
the docs.



    cheers, 
      DaveK
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Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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