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Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 11:34:34 -0400
From: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: [FYI]: doc directory [was Re: [RFD]: Where to put the important 
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I will adhere to this standard with the packages on CygUtils, as I
recompile/update them to become part of cygwin/latest/../extras or
whatever.

--Chuck

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> Chris Faylor wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 11:32:44AM -0500, Parker, Ron wrote:
> > >Something like:
> > >
> > >*      /usr/doc/Cygwin
> > >
> > >as a base directory for our documentation.  Then later we could add:
> >
> > This idea gets my vote.
> 
> FYI: I followed that suggestion for the latest inetutils-1.3.2-4
> package. The inetutils-1.3.2.README can now be found in
> 
>         /usr/doc/Cygwin
> 
> Further releases of my various ports will always use
> that directory as far as it's needed to provide a Cygwin
> specific README for installation and/or configuration.
> 
> Hope, other porters will use that in future, too. Only if
> it's used by most packages, this will become a well-known
> place for users to look for READMEs.
> 
> Moreover we would have a new obligatory answer:
> 
>         Q: I don't know how to config that new blurb package?
>         A: RTF blurb.README in /usr/doc/Cygwin!
> 
> Corinna