From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "McCunney, Dennis" To: 'Chris Faylor' Subject: RE: A new user of cygwin and unix based system Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 08:38:00 -0000 Message-id: <65CAA822B707D211AD430008C7F40FED1F8553@EXCHANGERSW2> X-SW-Source: 1999-06/msg00667.html > -----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 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "McCunney, Dennis" To: 'Chris Faylor' Subject: RE: A new user of cygwin and unix based system Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:10:00 -0000 Message-ID: <65CAA822B707D211AD430008C7F40FED1F8553@EXCHANGERSW2> X-SW-Source: 1999-06n/msg00667.html Message-ID: <19990630221000._nIbv-JW3552q8s1F6h7IMEazNSFx-CuLCdCItAQ8lk@z> > -----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 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com