From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1269 invoked by alias); 12 Dec 2011 21:57:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 1261 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Dec 2011 21:57:27 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from granite1.mail.cornell.edu (HELO authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu) (128.253.83.141) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:57:11 +0000 Received: from [128.84.234.240] (dhcp240.math.cornell.edu [128.84.234.240]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id pBCLvAc1015336 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:57:11 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4EE678B6.7070103@cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:57:00 -0000 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin Subject: Documentation patches Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------090709090907040603050005" X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-12/txt/msg00283.txt.bz2 --------------090709090907040603050005 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-length: 198 The attached patches address some of the documentation problems mentioned in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-12/msg00277.html . I think the other problems have already been fixed in CVS. Ken --------------090709090907040603050005 Content-Type: text/plain; name="faq-using.patch" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="faq-using.patch" Content-length: 725 --- faq-using.xml.orig 2011-12-08 16:42:26.000000000 -0500 +++ faq-using.xml 2011-12-12 16:40:59.381579400 -0500 @@ -939,16 +939,6 @@ - -Is there a better alternative to the standard console window? - - -Yes! Use mintty instead. mintty is an optional packages in -Cygwin Setup. mintty is a Cygwin application providing a native GUI without -the need of X11. - - - Why do some of my old symlinks don't work anymore? --------------090709090907040603050005 Content-Type: text/plain; name="new-features.patch" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="new-features.patch" Content-length: 624 --- new-features.sgml.orig 2011-12-08 16:42:26.000000000 -0500 +++ new-features.sgml 2011-12-12 16:34:16.077511700 -0500 @@ -497,14 +497,8 @@ having a valid representation of their filename in the current character set. To always have a valid string, use the UTF-8 charset by setting the environment variable $LANG, $LC_ALL, or $LC_CTYPE to a valid -POSIX value, for instance in Cygwin.bat like this: - - - -set LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 - - - +POSIX value, such as "en_US.UTF-8". + PATH_MAX is now 4096. Internally, path names can be as long as the --------------090709090907040603050005 Content-Type: text/plain; name="setup-net.patch" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="setup-net.patch" Content-length: 811 --- setup-net.sgml.orig 2011-08-04 15:11:43.000000000 -0400 +++ setup-net.sgml 2011-12-12 16:06:51.929471800 -0500 @@ -223,13 +223,12 @@ -Icons +Shortcuts -You may choose to install shortcuts on the Desktop and/or Start Menu -to start a bash shell. If you prefer to use a different -shell or terminal emulator such as mintty or -xterm, you can use these shortcuts as a guide to -creating your own. +You may choose to install "Cygwin Terminal" shortcuts on the Desktop +and/or Start Menu. These shortcuts run mintty, +which will start your default shell as specified +in /etc/passwd. --------------090709090907040603050005 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-length: 218 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple --------------090709090907040603050005--