On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 08:26:34PM +0100, Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > > Well, no one knows everything. :-) > > I've also noted: The more you learn, the more you know that you don't know. > (Is that correct/good English? Feels bad to me in some way).
I think that's fine English, though I think the more popular way to say it is "The more you learn, the less you know!" Your way actually might be more technically correct. > > > Might I ask where this functionality of setup is documented? > > >Not /u/s/d/cygwin-doc-1.3/html/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html as it seems. > > > > > >And please: > > > source is *not* documentation, independently of how readable it is. > > > > Sorry, no. Not every piece of functionality is documented for Cygwin and > > its setup program. It has been discussed many times on the cygwin-apps > > list. Here's one message that lists out at least some command > > line options: > > > > <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-03/msg00526.html> > > > > So the email archives is the only place I know of that has this > > information at this point, > > All right, that explains my ignorance. I read this list only, nothing else > WRT cygwin (except docs). > > > unless someone wants to look at the source (which you stated you did not). > > I have no problem reading source, but using it as *user* documentation > is "a long shot" IMO. > I consider myself a very knowledgable computer user and programmer (under > the right conditions), but a newbie user in the cygwin/POSIX world. > > > If you're interested, > > I'm sure Rob, Max, and others actively involved in the > > development of setup would consider any patch you > > might want to generate that moves this documentation into a more > > obvious/official spot. > > =-) well, I should have expected that... > That's a long version of "PTC" ;-D Actually, I'd originally asked on cygwin-apps@ so that I could get a man page together, but I don't think cygwin.com/setup.exe supports what the latest CVS HEAD developer cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/ one does. Those of you using setup.exe in batch mode, are you using command-line options with stock setup.exe, developer versions, or your own builds? If it's the regular cygwin.com/setup.exe, I'll note it down now and get some documentation in the next iteration of cygwin-doc. In any case I can link to that message from the setup.exe homepage. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
