From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15898 invoked by alias); 22 Jul 2002 20:41:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 15891 invoked from network); 22 Jul 2002 20:41:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO orngca-mls02.socal.rr.com) (66.75.160.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 22 Jul 2002 20:41:48 -0000 Received: from samsystem (sc-24-165-82-163.socal.rr.com [24.165.82.163]) by orngca-mls02.socal.rr.com (8.11.4/8.11.3) with SMTP id g6MKflK12339 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:41:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <049201c231c0$3af5e2f0$a352a518@samsystem> From: "Samuel" To: "Cygwin mailing list" Subject: Documentation improvements Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 15:00:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg01783.txt.bz2 I am a newbie but my first message to the mailing list was not ignored. What does that mean? I don't know. In my first message I said: "I am new to this mailing list and to Cygwin. I also have not used Unix for over a decade. I am familiar with C and C++ and I have been using Visual C++ since the first version." I have a web site where I have put things that I hope is helpful for others. See: http://www.cpp.atfreeweb.com I think that many programmers experienced with Windows would like to become familiar with Linux and other such Unix systems and that many of them (like me) have not taken the time to dive in. I think CygWin is a useful way for us to start. I have written something describing what I have encountered so far and that might help others. I am interested in corrections, comments and improvements. Any of it that can be useful in the CygWin web site can be put there. I have used the "Teal" color for a few things in my web page. That color is not much different from the green color I use for most of the web site. I used the slightly different color for things I have questions about or that are comments that I am especially interested in getting some comments about from this group. The following are the three installation items: - the option for specifying the installation directory - what the "defaults" are - what editor was installed There are a few things that I am unfamiliar with that are so basic that I should be able to figure them out myself. I will make more of an effort to figure them out but if someone wants to help then will help. There are other things I should be doing so I need to limit the time I spend on this. I will attempt to revise my web page with answers such as that and hopefully it will help others that are equally unfamiliar with Unix and CygWin. For example, I espected to be able to do "help | more" but "more" was not found. There also seems to be manual pages but I do not know how to look at them. I tried using "man" but "man" is not found. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/