A new user of cygwin and unix based system

A new user of cygwin and unix based system

[Jons]

I am a new user of cygwin and other unix based system and I would like to
know if cygwin is capable to allow multi-user shell login from a network or
internet. I am using win98.

Thank you.

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Re: A new user of cygwin and unix based system

[Chris Faylor]

On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 04:37:09PM -0700, Jons wrote:
>I am a new user of cygwin and other unix based system and I would like to
>know if cygwin is capable to allow multi-user shell login from a network or
>internet. I am using win98.

If you are a new user, you'll probably have a lot of questions.  So, in
the interest of teaching you to fish rather than giving you a fish.  I
would suggest that the best way to get your questions answered is to
start with the project's web page: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin .
There, you will find pointers to ported software, a FAQ, and pointers to
the mailing list archives where, I am sure you can imagine, most
beginner questions have already been endlessly rehashed.

Chris Faylor
Cygwin Program Manager

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A new user of cygwin and unix based system

[Jons]

I am a new user of cygwin and other unix based system and I would like to
know if cygwin is capable to allow multi-user shell login from a network or
internet. I am using win98.

Thank you.

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Re: A new user of cygwin and unix based system

[Chris Faylor]

On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 04:37:09PM -0700, Jons wrote:
>I am a new user of cygwin and other unix based system and I would like to
>know if cygwin is capable to allow multi-user shell login from a network or
>internet. I am using win98.

If you are a new user, you'll probably have a lot of questions.  So, in
the interest of teaching you to fish rather than giving you a fish.  I
would suggest that the best way to get your questions answered is to
start with the project's web page: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin .
There, you will find pointers to ported software, a FAQ, and pointers to
the mailing list archives where, I am sure you can imagine, most
beginner questions have already been endlessly rehashed.

Chris Faylor
Cygwin Program Manager

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Re: A new user of cygwin and unix based system

[Michael Hirmke]

Chris Faylor [cgf@cygnus.com] wrote:

[...]
>Maybe we should be putting your "ported software report" on our web pages
>somehow.

Isn't a link enough??

>
>Would you be interested in maintaining a page at sourceware.cygnus.com?
>You'd need cvs access but after that it would be easy.

Sorry, but I'd better like to maintain this document here on my own web
server. Besides that, I don't have the time to do anything else than
that.

>
>cgf

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Re: A new user of cygwin and unix based system

[Michael Hirmke]

Hi Chris,

[...]
>reader.  Offhand, I don't see groff but I know it's been ported.  If
>anyone wants to send me or DJ a pointer to a URL for download we'll add
>it to the web page.

groff-1.10 is on ftp.franken.de in my porters' directory and also has a
section in my package report.


>
>cgf

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Re: A new user of cygwin and unix based system

[Glenn Spell]

Chris Faylor <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 02:08:54AM -0400, Glenn Spell wrote:
>
> >You might want to update it again. In the fourth paragraph you
> >misspelled "Corinna Vinschen".
>
> Corinna isn't mentioned in the fourth paragraph.

Yes, it's an obvious discrepancy. Can you fix it?

Thanks,

-glenn

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Re: A new user of cygwin and unix based system

[Chris Faylor]

On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 02:08:54AM -0400, Glenn Spell wrote:
>"'Chris Faylor'"cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com wrote:
>
>> Ok.  Is it important to post my title frequently?  The "who's who"
>> information is easily retrievable from the project web page (I just
>> updated it with DJ's and my titles).
>
>You might want to update it again. In the fourth paragraph you
>misspelled "Corinna Vinschen".

This is supposed to be "funny" right?  Corinna isn't mentioned in the
fourth paragraph.

cgf

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Re: A new user of cygwin and unix based system

[Chris Faylor]

On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 12:06:00AM +0200, Michael Hirmke wrote:
>>reader.  Offhand, I don't see groff but I know it's been ported.  If
>>anyone wants to send me or DJ a pointer to a URL for download we'll add
>>it to the web page.
>
>groff-1.10 is on ftp.franken.de in my porters' directory and also has a
>section in my package report.

Yeah, I thought it was probably on your site but it doesn't seem to be
mentioned on the cygwin site.

Maybe we should be putting your "ported software report" on our web pages
somehow.

Would you be interested in maintaining a page at sourceware.cygnus.com?
You'd need cvs access but after that it would be easy.

cgf

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Re: A new user of cygwin and unix based system

[Glenn Spell]

"'Chris Faylor'"cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com wrote:

> Ok.  Is it important to post my title frequently?  The "who's who"
> information is easily retrievable from the project web page (I just
> updated it with DJ's and my titles).

You might want to update it again. In the fourth paragraph you
misspelled "Corinna Vinschen".

-glenn

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Re: A new user of cygwin and unix based system

[Michael Hirmke]

Chris Faylor [cgf@cygnus.com] wrote:

[...]
>Maybe we should be putting your "ported software report" on our web pages
>somehow.

Isn't a link enough??

>
>Would you be interested in maintaining a page at sourceware.cygnus.com?
>You'd need cvs access but after that it would be easy.

Sorry, but I'd better like to maintain this document here on my own web
server. Besides that, I don't have the time to do anything else than
that.

>
>cgf

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Re: A new user of cygwin and unix based system

[Chris Faylor]

On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 12:06:00AM +0200, Michael Hirmke wrote:
>>reader.  Offhand, I don't see groff but I know it's been ported.  If
>>anyone wants to send me or DJ a pointer to a URL for download we'll add
>>it to the web page.
>
>groff-1.10 is on ftp.franken.de in my porters' directory and also has a
>section in my package report.

Yeah, I thought it was probably on your site but it doesn't seem to be
mentioned on the cygwin site.

Maybe we should be putting your "ported software report" on our web pages
somehow.

Would you be interested in maintaining a page at sourceware.cygnus.com?
You'd need cvs access but after that it would be easy.

cgf

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Re: A new user of cygwin and unix based system

[Michael Hirmke]

Hi Chris,

[...]
>reader.  Offhand, I don't see groff but I know it's been ported.  If
>anyone wants to send me or DJ a pointer to a URL for download we'll add
>it to the web page.

groff-1.10 is on ftp.franken.de in my porters' directory and also has a
section in my package report.


>
>cgf

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Re: A new user of cygwin and unix based system

[Glenn Spell]

Chris Faylor <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 02:08:54AM -0400, Glenn Spell wrote:
>
> >You might want to update it again. In the fourth paragraph you
> >misspelled "Corinna Vinschen".
>
> Corinna isn't mentioned in the fourth paragraph.

Yes, it's an obvious discrepancy. Can you fix it?

Thanks,

-glenn

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Re: A new user of cygwin and unix based system

[Chris Faylor]

On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 02:08:54AM -0400, Glenn Spell wrote:
>"'Chris Faylor'"cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com wrote:
>
>> Ok.  Is it important to post my title frequently?  The "who's who"
>> information is easily retrievable from the project web page (I just
>> updated it with DJ's and my titles).
>
>You might want to update it again. In the fourth paragraph you
>misspelled "Corinna Vinschen".

This is supposed to be "funny" right?  Corinna isn't mentioned in the
fourth paragraph.

cgf

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Re: A new user of cygwin and unix based system

[Glenn Spell]

"'Chris Faylor'"cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com wrote:

> Ok.  Is it important to post my title frequently?  The "who's who"
> information is easily retrievable from the project web page (I just
> updated it with DJ's and my titles).

You might want to update it again. In the fourth paragraph you
misspelled "Corinna Vinschen".

-glenn

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Re: A new user of cygwin and unix based system

['Chris Faylor']

On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 11:38:21AM -0400, McCunney, Dennis wrote:
>First, you might wish to post a mini-FAQ here on a regular basis.  It
>doesn't have to be long and detailed: just a statement of the nature and
>purpose of the mailing list, names and email addresses of "official" folks
>like yourself with notes about your roles, and pointers to the appropriate
>FAQs and other resources.

There *is* a mini-FAQ posted on a regular basis by a volunteer.  We're very
grateful for Michael Weiser's contribution of the mini-FAQ.

>I got the impression from reading your posts here that you were officially
>involved with Cygwin, for instance, but this is the first post of yours
>signed with your title that I recall seeing.

Ok.  Is it important to post my title frequently?  The "who's who" information
is easily retrievable from the project web page (I just updated it with DJ's
and my titles).

>As the Cygwin tools grow in usage, you'll see more new folks popping up
>asking beginner questions who for whatever reason don't already know about
>the FAQ.  

And, if they do, either I or someone else will inevitably point them to the
FAQ just like on countless other mailing lists and newsgroups throughout the
internet.  I must be missing something here because you seem to be stating the
obvious and I don't know why.

>(I found out about this mailing list from a FAQ included with a cygwin
>distribution, but the address given for subscribing to the list was _wrong_,
>and bounced with an "unknown recipient" error.  I got pointed in the right
>direction by a chap on the NTEmacs mailing list.)

The mailing list address changed.  Here's the bounce message from
sending mail to the old mailing list address:

>Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 17:29:12 -0700 (PDT)
>From: daemon@cygnus.com
>To: cgf@cygnus.com
>Subject: Re: A test
>In-Reply-To: <19990628203018.A15216@cygnus.com>
>Precedence: junk
>X-Loop: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
>
>Sorry, I am unable to deliver your mail note to gnu-win32@cygnus.com,
>that list name is no longer used.  Please try resending your mail 
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>
>Here is a copy of the note you sent.
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I think the message is pretty clear.

>Second, please consider adding either a stand-alone info reader or a
>groff port to the distribution.  I understand your desire to reserve
>your energies for the more important parts of your effort, but since
>your documentation is distributed in nroff and info format, it isn't
>clear how someone who doesn't have emacs, an info reader, or groff
>installed is supposed to _read_ it.  (I installed NTEmacs and added
>your info files to the Emacs info tree.  I'm still SOL on the man pages
>- my Unix systems at the office don't have nroff installed, and booting
>to Linux at home to use groff is something I haven't had time to do.)

Maybe you haven't been reading the mailing list long enough to hear the
standard statement on why these tools exist.  Basically, the tools exist
because Cygnus uses them to port its GNUpro offering to Windows.  For
that purpose, we basically have everything we need.  It was realized
that these tools would be of some use to people on the Internet so they
were released as free software.

Although suggestions are always welcome (and this one has been repeated
countless times), we don't always have the time to polish up the release
and provide everything that users clamor for -- at least we don't have the
time to do it with any great alacrity.

So, what are your alternatives?  Are you SOL?  No.  You have a large
number of options.  Again, I would point you to the project web page.
If you peruse the Ported Software section, you'll undoubtedly find a man
reader.  Offhand, I don't see groff but I know it's been ported.  If
anyone wants to send me or DJ a pointer to a URL for download we'll add
it to the web page.

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Re: A new user of cygwin and unix based system

[Chris Faylor]

On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 09:12:09PM -0400, 'Chris Faylor' wrote:
>>(I found out about this mailing list from a FAQ included with a cygwin
>>distribution, but the address given for subscribing to the list was _wrong_,
>>and bounced with an "unknown recipient" error.  I got pointed in the right
>>direction by a chap on the NTEmacs mailing list.)
>
>The mailing list address changed.  Here's the bounce message from
>sending mail to the old mailing list address:
>
>>[snip]

Oops. Sorry about this.  Poor reading skills.

The subscription address for the old mailing list *does* bounce.  I'm having
someone fix this now.

Thanks for the heads up.

cgf

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RE: A new user of cygwin and unix based system

[McCunney, Dennis]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Faylor [ mailto:cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com ]
> Sent: Saturday, June 26, 1999 9:36 PM
> To: Jons
> Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: A new user of cygwin and unix based system
> 
> If you are a new user, you'll probably have a lot of questions.  So, in
> the interest of teaching you to fish rather than giving you a fish.  I
> would suggest that the best way to get your questions answered is to
> start with the project's web page: 
> http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin .
> There, you will find pointers to ported software, a FAQ, and pointers to
> the mailing list archives where, I am sure you can imagine, most
> beginner questions have already been endlessly rehashed.
> 
> Chris Faylor
> Cygwin Program Manager

If I might make a couple of suggestions:

First, you might wish to post a mini-FAQ here on a regular basis.  It
doesn't have to be long and detailed: just a statement of the nature and
purpose of the mailing list, names and email addresses of "official" folks
like yourself with notes about your roles, and pointers to the appropriate
FAQs and other resources.

I got the impression from reading your posts here that you were officially
involved with Cygwin, for instance, but this is the first post of yours
signed with your title that I recall seeing.

As the Cygwin tools grow in usage, you'll see more new folks popping up
asking beginner questions who for whatever reason don't already know about
the FAQ.  

(I found out about this mailing list from a FAQ included with a cygwin
distribution, but the address given for subscribing to the list was _wrong_,
and bounced with an "unknown recipient" error.  I got pointed in the right
direction by a chap on the NTEmacs mailing list.)

Second, please consider adding either a stand-alone info reader or a groff
port to the distribution.  I  understand your desire to reserve your
energies for the more important parts of your effort, but since your
documentation is distributed in nroff and info format, it isn't clear how
someone who doesn't have emacs, an info reader, or groff installed is
supposed to _read_ it. (I installed NTEmacs and added your info files to the
Emacs info tree.  I'm still SOL on the man pages - my Unix systems at the
office don't have nroff installed, and booting to Linux at home to use groff
is something I haven't had time to do.)

Thanks for excellent tools and a worthy effort.

_______________
Dennis McCunney
 


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Re: A new user of cygwin and unix based system

[DJ Delorie]

> If I might make a couple of suggestions:

Suggestions are always welcome!

> First, you might wish to post a mini-FAQ here on a regular basis.

Hmmm... I already post a djgpp mini-faq; I suppose I could do a cygwin
mini-faq also.

> I got the impression from reading your posts here that you were officially
> involved with Cygwin, for instance, but this is the first post of yours
> signed with your title that I recall seeing.

For the record, Chris is the manager of the cygwin group, and I'm the
only engineer in the group (my official title is "senior engineer").
Chris also manages another group in Cygnus, so I'm the only true
full-time employee on cygwin.  Our responsibilities include not only
cygwin development, but also supporting development by other groups on
the windows platform and doing other windows-related internal
projects.  I'm also working on our next "GNUPro" release.

> (I found out about this mailing list from a FAQ included with a cygwin
> distribution, but the address given for subscribing to the list was _wrong_,
> and bounced with an "unknown recipient" error.  I got pointed in the right
> direction by a chap on the NTEmacs mailing list.)

That would be the old gnu-win32@cygnus.com address, which I thought
would bounce with a *useful* message.

> Second, please consider adding either a stand-alone info reader or a groff
> port to the distribution.

I have those on my machine.  Porting was actually pretty easy; you
might try it yourself as an exercise.  Texinfo just needed a makefile
tweak (add .exe to makedoc), GNU groff built without changes, and you
can get "man" sources from any linux distribution - no changes needed
there either.  Our goal (well, mine at least) is to make cygwin
compatible enough that "./configure; make; make install" works just as
often (and as well) as on Unix.  In this case, it almost does.

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Re: A new user of cygwin and unix based system

[Chris Faylor]

On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 09:12:09PM -0400, 'Chris Faylor' wrote:
>>(I found out about this mailing list from a FAQ included with a cygwin
>>distribution, but the address given for subscribing to the list was _wrong_,
>>and bounced with an "unknown recipient" error.  I got pointed in the right
>>direction by a chap on the NTEmacs mailing list.)
>
>The mailing list address changed.  Here's the bounce message from
>sending mail to the old mailing list address:
>
>>[snip]

Oops. Sorry about this.  Poor reading skills.

The subscription address for the old mailing list *does* bounce.  I'm having
someone fix this now.

Thanks for the heads up.

cgf

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Re: A new user of cygwin and unix based system

['Chris Faylor']

On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 11:38:21AM -0400, McCunney, Dennis wrote:
>First, you might wish to post a mini-FAQ here on a regular basis.  It
>doesn't have to be long and detailed: just a statement of the nature and
>purpose of the mailing list, names and email addresses of "official" folks
>like yourself with notes about your roles, and pointers to the appropriate
>FAQs and other resources.

There *is* a mini-FAQ posted on a regular basis by a volunteer.  We're very
grateful for Michael Weiser's contribution of the mini-FAQ.

>I got the impression from reading your posts here that you were officially
>involved with Cygwin, for instance, but this is the first post of yours
>signed with your title that I recall seeing.

Ok.  Is it important to post my title frequently?  The "who's who" information
is easily retrievable from the project web page (I just updated it with DJ's
and my titles).

>As the Cygwin tools grow in usage, you'll see more new folks popping up
>asking beginner questions who for whatever reason don't already know about
>the FAQ.  

And, if they do, either I or someone else will inevitably point them to the
FAQ just like on countless other mailing lists and newsgroups throughout the
internet.  I must be missing something here because you seem to be stating the
obvious and I don't know why.

>(I found out about this mailing list from a FAQ included with a cygwin
>distribution, but the address given for subscribing to the list was _wrong_,
>and bounced with an "unknown recipient" error.  I got pointed in the right
>direction by a chap on the NTEmacs mailing list.)

The mailing list address changed.  Here's the bounce message from
sending mail to the old mailing list address:

>Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 17:29:12 -0700 (PDT)
>From: daemon@cygnus.com
>To: cgf@cygnus.com
>Subject: Re: A test
>In-Reply-To: <19990628203018.A15216@cygnus.com>
>Precedence: junk
>X-Loop: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
>
>Sorry, I am unable to deliver your mail note to gnu-win32@cygnus.com,
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I think the message is pretty clear.

>Second, please consider adding either a stand-alone info reader or a
>groff port to the distribution.  I understand your desire to reserve
>your energies for the more important parts of your effort, but since
>your documentation is distributed in nroff and info format, it isn't
>clear how someone who doesn't have emacs, an info reader, or groff
>installed is supposed to _read_ it.  (I installed NTEmacs and added
>your info files to the Emacs info tree.  I'm still SOL on the man pages
>- my Unix systems at the office don't have nroff installed, and booting
>to Linux at home to use groff is something I haven't had time to do.)

Maybe you haven't been reading the mailing list long enough to hear the
standard statement on why these tools exist.  Basically, the tools exist
because Cygnus uses them to port its GNUpro offering to Windows.  For
that purpose, we basically have everything we need.  It was realized
that these tools would be of some use to people on the Internet so they
were released as free software.

Although suggestions are always welcome (and this one has been repeated
countless times), we don't always have the time to polish up the release
and provide everything that users clamor for -- at least we don't have the
time to do it with any great alacrity.

So, what are your alternatives?  Are you SOL?  No.  You have a large
number of options.  Again, I would point you to the project web page.
If you peruse the Ported Software section, you'll undoubtedly find a man
reader.  Offhand, I don't see groff but I know it's been ported.  If
anyone wants to send me or DJ a pointer to a URL for download we'll add
it to the web page.

cgf

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Re: A new user of cygwin and unix based system

[DJ Delorie]

> If I might make a couple of suggestions:

Suggestions are always welcome!

> First, you might wish to post a mini-FAQ here on a regular basis.

Hmmm... I already post a djgpp mini-faq; I suppose I could do a cygwin
mini-faq also.

> I got the impression from reading your posts here that you were officially
> involved with Cygwin, for instance, but this is the first post of yours
> signed with your title that I recall seeing.

For the record, Chris is the manager of the cygwin group, and I'm the
only engineer in the group (my official title is "senior engineer").
Chris also manages another group in Cygnus, so I'm the only true
full-time employee on cygwin.  Our responsibilities include not only
cygwin development, but also supporting development by other groups on
the windows platform and doing other windows-related internal
projects.  I'm also working on our next "GNUPro" release.

> (I found out about this mailing list from a FAQ included with a cygwin
> distribution, but the address given for subscribing to the list was _wrong_,
> and bounced with an "unknown recipient" error.  I got pointed in the right
> direction by a chap on the NTEmacs mailing list.)

That would be the old gnu-win32@cygnus.com address, which I thought
would bounce with a *useful* message.

> Second, please consider adding either a stand-alone info reader or a groff
> port to the distribution.

I have those on my machine.  Porting was actually pretty easy; you
might try it yourself as an exercise.  Texinfo just needed a makefile
tweak (add .exe to makedoc), GNU groff built without changes, and you
can get "man" sources from any linux distribution - no changes needed
there either.  Our goal (well, mine at least) is to make cygwin
compatible enough that "./configure; make; make install" works just as
often (and as well) as on Unix.  In this case, it almost does.

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RE: A new user of cygwin and unix based system

[McCunney, Dennis]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Faylor [ mailto:cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com ]
> Sent: Saturday, June 26, 1999 9:36 PM
> To: Jons
> Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: A new user of cygwin and unix based system
> 
> If you are a new user, you'll probably have a lot of questions.  So, in
> the interest of teaching you to fish rather than giving you a fish.  I
> would suggest that the best way to get your questions answered is to
> start with the project's web page: 
> http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin .
> There, you will find pointers to ported software, a FAQ, and pointers to
> the mailing list archives where, I am sure you can imagine, most
> beginner questions have already been endlessly rehashed.
> 
> Chris Faylor
> Cygwin Program Manager

If I might make a couple of suggestions:

First, you might wish to post a mini-FAQ here on a regular basis.  It
doesn't have to be long and detailed: just a statement of the nature and
purpose of the mailing list, names and email addresses of "official" folks
like yourself with notes about your roles, and pointers to the appropriate
FAQs and other resources.

I got the impression from reading your posts here that you were officially
involved with Cygwin, for instance, but this is the first post of yours
signed with your title that I recall seeing.

As the Cygwin tools grow in usage, you'll see more new folks popping up
asking beginner questions who for whatever reason don't already know about
the FAQ.  

(I found out about this mailing list from a FAQ included with a cygwin
distribution, but the address given for subscribing to the list was _wrong_,
and bounced with an "unknown recipient" error.  I got pointed in the right
direction by a chap on the NTEmacs mailing list.)

Second, please consider adding either a stand-alone info reader or a groff
port to the distribution.  I  understand your desire to reserve your
energies for the more important parts of your effort, but since your
documentation is distributed in nroff and info format, it isn't clear how
someone who doesn't have emacs, an info reader, or groff installed is
supposed to _read_ it. (I installed NTEmacs and added your info files to the
Emacs info tree.  I'm still SOL on the man pages - my Unix systems at the
office don't have nroff installed, and booting to Linux at home to use groff
is something I haven't had time to do.)

Thanks for excellent tools and a worthy effort.

_______________
Dennis McCunney
 


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