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From: Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net>
To: John Morrison <john@morrison.mine.nu>
Cc: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Package Grep source and Program not installed functionality
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:16:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <488F257D.2E56FFA8@dessent.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e71761b09a0e026275de7fde6bb20a38.squirrel@mail.morrison.mine.nu>

John Morrison wrote:

> Would it be possible to extend the cgi
> 
> http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi
> 
> to (optionally) output plain text instead of the formatted HTML?
> 
> Add a output=text instruction?  If the source is available I'd be willing
> to see if I could do the mod.  I was thinking of some kind of command line
> which would simplify the users finding out what package they would need to
> install to access a particular tool, for example on my ubuntu machine;

This already exists, it's spelled "cygcheck -p".

Brian

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-29 14:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-29 12:12 John Morrison
2008-07-29 14:16 ` Brian Dessent [this message]
2008-07-29 16:37   ` John Morrison
2008-07-29 17:13     ` Brian Dessent

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