On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 09:57:44AM -0800, Jim Kleckner wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 08:45:10AM -0800, Jim Kleckner wrote: > >>So, if you're a Unix guy since 1978, that puts you in a unique category. >>You don't qualify as a FAQ. > >I don't quite understand this. I don't qualify to write FAQ entries >or shouldn't be allowed to use them?
"F"requently "A"sked "Q"uestions. ^^^^^^^^^^^^ >>I have very strong reservations about filling up documentation with >>every conceivable combination of advice that we could possibly think of. >>Adding rationales to stop Unix guys from shooting themselves in the foot >>should not be a focus of the FAQ. The FAQ is there to give advice to >>people on what to do, not to provide rationales for why they shouldn't >>do other things that pop into their heads. > >Then strike the link text and limit it to the workaround of adding >the bin to the system path. My text was a suggested starting point. i.e., a workaround. >>The solution that the DLL has to be in the system path is not required >>for a sanctioned Cygwin release. But, then, we've seen before that >>clamwin insists on running in a non-cygwin environment. I don't want to >>be in the business of adding advice to the FAQ for fixing up other >>people's problems. > >Nobody said the workaround was required. See above. cgf -- 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/
