On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 07:24:53PM +0100, Sylvain RICHARD wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 11:24:59AM +0100, PEDRO MACANAS VALVERDE wrote: >>>Asunto: RE: Uninstalling Cygwin >>>Wonderful, mer?i beaucoup, Sylvain, that worked. Didn't realise this >>>could be so easy. Cygwin documentation / FAQ people, maybe this would >>>be wise to incorporate somewhere in the uninstall documentation on your >>>website, as I suspect all users running winXP and higher experience >>>these problems when having chacged file ownership. Thanks again. >>> >>>For this , include the FAQ in a Wiki is a good option. One also can >>>include user tips. >> >>You should have paid closer attention to the discussion. This would be >>just the kind of confusion we don't need. Having people update the >>"FAQ" with a "tip" that was *already* in the "FAQ" would just cause >>more confusion. > >I have to say that I agree with cgf. I should have looked in the FAQ >before, it would have saved some typing. I have had exactly the same >issue before and perhaps didn't find the answer at that time. People >who come from a UNIX background tend to use chown or chmod but may have >already deleted chown.exe and chmod.exe. Perhaps adding the exact >cacls invocation in the FAQ would be helpful
Good point. Do you (or anyone) want to suggest some wording for that section of the FAQ? 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/
