X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:reply-to:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=pzPT3JzEma17H4we iPHt8MU/MXN74/j6O7RFZFvsJVA4d6CSQn8Fd/PiNfNwRy53BzJVsK5QAgphHEeZ VtQeeusv0rXblLCGhMX5pDq7csJrC92rOSJQjNJ+Cq0M2tfmzj1tx2HQ6n/vdL7o iTGz7zwgomBHYUwvP6hq+IqVbZU= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:reply-to:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=a+mPsmY1Q8gqeYCP3FqNgo 6tuG4=; b=e8uW0mZPI8yIvP0S4BfLcFuCBH6LMkWle+30g/ps9gGmnTXHOqXPpU ncq5jF/gyoNTAJqYprro3uZ1QQvj0p2jmWPDN+lz5wTMpS9dWGZ/NdXuN7W8PhF3 Hw55IqdUkagZ5UK9jCJML9+Vn/G7ZT+7jJdXCsISlPfl4HzkbFRO4= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: csmail.cs.umass.edu Message-ID: <52C3431B.7030505@cs.umass.edu> Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 17:20:11 -0500 From: Eliot Moss Reply-To: moss AT cs DOT umass DOT edu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Ok, then References: <1388523397 DOT 38131 DOT YahooMailNeo AT web162702 DOT mail DOT bf1 DOT yahoo DOT com> <20131231212051 DOT GB4460 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <1388528041 DOT 29965 DOT YahooMailNeo AT web162706 DOT mail DOT bf1 DOT yahoo DOT com> In-Reply-To: <1388528041.29965.YahooMailNeo@web162706.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes My suggestion would be to take a look at some of the many books that try to introduce Unix and bash to new users and see how they have approached a good / logical order of presentation. cygwin itself is perhaps more directed at experienced users -- or in any case, it is making no particular attempt to be easier for novices to use than Unix is, or to provide special support for Unix novices. But that does not preclude someone (you) from making such a thing and perhaps getting it adopted into the distro (I don't control that!). Perhaps similar efforts have been made for linux, which might give a starting point? Regards -- EM -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple