From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19360 invoked by alias); 10 Aug 2006 20:45:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 19347 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Aug 2006 20:45:15 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) (80.91.229.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:45:13 +0000 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GBHOo-0006Bm-Kq for cygwin-talk@cygwin.com; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:45:02 +0200 Received: from 65.207.213.226 ([65.207.213.226]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:45:02 +0200 Received: from mwoehlke by 65.207.213.226 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:45:02 +0200 To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com From: mwoehlke Subject: Re: Um... what format are Cygwin manpages? Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <20060810202721.GC935@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060719 Thunderbird/1.5.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 In-Reply-To: <20060810202721.GC935@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List X-SW-Source: 2006-q3/txt/msg00136.txt.bz2 Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 03:20:21PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: >> Anyway, if it turns out I have to patch an info file, then I guess I'm >> stuck doing that. Assuming anyone on newlib pays attention to me. So >> far, zilch. > > Yes, you definitely have to *patch* the *source* of the documentation that > you want changed if you want someone to apply it. I think the point is that I would hope they would accept a flat-out new file, if it was that major a re-working (which IMO it should be; I find the layout of glibc's manpage a lot easier to understand, in addition to being more accurate). But... if I'm to do anything with the texinfo source, I have to *find* it first. Sigh. I am losing enthusiasm for this project. -- Matthew vIMprove your life! Now on version 7!