> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski
> Sent: 16 July 2004 20:12
> > > This is a usability issue. It's hard enough to teach
> people to type:
> > >
> > > man <command-name>
> > >
> > > teaching them to type:
> > >
> > > more /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/ssmtp-0.x.y/README.ssmtp-0.x.y
> >
> > Don't make it overly complicated. `less
> /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/ssmtp*'
> > is enough. And telling people that /usr/share/doc/Cygwin contains
> > Cygwin specific README files isn't that hard, really.
> >
> > Corinna
>
> Yep, nice choice of words here. *Telling* them is definitely not hard.
> Getting them to do it before sending questions to the list is. :-)
>
> Actually, there's an interesting point in this thread. Would
> it be a good
> idea to have a reference to the Cygwin-specific README in the
> manpages for
> every Cygwin package that has one (say, in the SEE ALSO
> section)?
> Another possible place to mention the Cygwin-specific READMEs
> is in the "man cygwin" page. :-)
Another possibility would be for the very last dialog in setup.exe, the
one that says "download/install complete", to also say in very big letters
"For Cygwin-specific documentation, see /usr/share/doc/Cygwin". It could
maybe even have a tickbox to automatically open that window in explorer...
cheers,
DaveK
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