X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 23:22:41 +0000 (GMT) From: phil curb <jswordtestem AT yahoo DOT co DOT uk> Subject: Re: missing 'which' documentation To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com In-Reply-To: <4760AD25.1010802@veritech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <233428.34684.qm@web23212.mail.ird.yahoo.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com> 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 --- "Lee D. Rothstein" <lee AT veritech DOT com> wrote: > Does anybody know or care that there is an option -- > '-a' -- for 'which' -- that is not documented on > Cygwin. That is, there is no internal help, and > there > is no 'man' or 'info' page provided by Cygwin > install. > If anybody wants this, I will find or create the > 'man' > page and make it cover '-a', and then do *what* with > it? Pointers appreciated! > > To see the value of this option try (assuming you > have MS > executable directories in your path): > > which ping vs which -a ping > which find vs which -a find > > and > > which dir == which -a dir > > i.e., 'dir' is an internal of 'cmd.exe' > > Lee Rothstein would be good, though I realised that for programs, like squid (whose cygwin port does not even seem to work, but there is a windows port).. One is expected to go online for the documentation! So I consider an internet connection somewhat mandatory - unfortunately. I have typed "man which", at google. I did notice that cygwin had no man or info page for which. on a related note- i also check /usr/share/doc , since programs can put documentation there, and furthermore, that documentation is different, not conforming to the strict man page format. I guess there is no excuse for a simple thing like a man page to not be installed - available offline. Even a large man page is small enough, and this is a small man page. ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ ___________________________________________________________ Support the World Aids Awareness campaign this month with Yahoo! For Good http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/ -- 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/