RE: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Andrew M. Inggs --8<-- > > 3. *Move* the ENTIRE cache directory onto a CDR (or whatever) - do NOT > > change anything within the cache. > > Specifically for CD-R, I have had trouble doing this because the > URL-encoded directories th

Re: Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Timothy C Prince wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 17:15:08 -0500 (EST) > Subject: Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide > > On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Ch

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > > > > Still waiting for that gold star web page. Elfyn? You > > > > > volunteering? > > > > > cgf > > > > >

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

> On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > > Still waiting for that gold star web page. Elfyn? You volunteering? > > > > cgf > > > > > > Oh, *that*...

Re: Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

-Original Message- From: Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 17:15:08 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:11:35

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 06:22:22PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >> On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >> >> > On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> > >> > [snip] >> > >> > > Still waiting for that gold star web page. Elfyn?

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > Still waiting for that gold star web page. Elfyn? You volunteering? > > > cgf > > > > Oh, *that*... I have that ready to ch

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

> On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 04:11:35PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >***Groan***! Oh, no! Now look what you've done! > >Next thing you know, we'll be having a contest for the best Cygwin > >documentation poem! With the winner being awarded "gold stars" by cgf! > >;-) > > Let the games begin.

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

> ***Groan***! Oh, no! Now look what you've done! > Next thing you know, we'll be having a contest for the best Cygwin > documentation poem! With the winner being awarded "gold stars" by cgf! > ;-) And I'll keep track of 'em ;-) We could have a Cygwin poets corner? LOL Regards, Elfyn McBratn

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

> > On Thu, Mar 27, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:11:35PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > >***Groan***! Oh, no! Now look what you've done! > > >Next thing you know, we'll be having a contest for the best Cygwin > > >documentation poem! With the winner being awarded "gold stars" by cgf! > > >;-) > > > >

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > [snip] > > > Still waiting for that gold star web page. Elfyn? You volunteering? > > cgf > > Oh, *that*... I have that ready to check in. Except... What was Elfyn's > first star for? Can't find

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

At 14:15 2003-03-27, you wrote: On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:11:35PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >***Groan***! Oh, no! Now look what you've done! > >Next thing you know, we'll be having a contest for the best Cygwin > >documentation poe

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:11:35PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > >***Groan***! Oh, no! Now look what you've done! > >Next thing you know, we'll be having a contest for the best Cygwin > >documentation poem! With the winner being awarde

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 04:11:35PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >***Groan***! Oh, no! Now look what you've done! >Next thing you know, we'll be having a contest for the best Cygwin >documentation poem! With the winner being awarded "gold stars" by cgf! >;-) Let the games begin. If it's cygw

RE: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > This is now clearly off topic ;-) > (Yeah! I Succeeded once again :-D ) > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > > Of Christopher Faylor > -- 8< -- > > >"But, as I have observed that Time confuses facts occa

RE: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

This is now clearly off topic ;-) (Yeah! I Succeeded once again :-D ) > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Christopher Faylor -- 8< -- > >"But, as I have observed that Time confuses facts occasionally, I > >hardly know what weight to give to his authority." -- Charles

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 11:15:30PM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >> > While I can't totally empathize since I've never had high Internet bills, >> > until recently I was on US dialup (that's 53Kb down at best). >> >> I've been around since it was 2400 bps ;-) - believe me; that is slow. >

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 09:53:54PM +0100, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > IMO; Don't _include_ the descriptions for 'cp' and 'mkdir' - instead find a > relevant pointer to earlier/ better/ whatever description. This is what I > wish I've had when I was a new user :-). > Nor do I thin

RE: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Joshua Daniel Franklin --8<-- > > IMHO my suggestions adds just that *tiny bit* of extra info > > that makes a new user get the grip - without some of the FAQs. > > This is true, and makes me feel somewhat guilty since one of the goa

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

Andrew, At 11:41 2003-03-26, Andrew M. Inggs wrote: ... Specifically for CD-R, I have had trouble doing this because the URL-encoded directories that setup.exe creates to keep track of which mirror you select are not ISO9660 or Joliet friendly. I usually just rename the directory before burni

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > As I understood from a posting of Igor Pechtchanski this isn't as hard as I thought(1). Well, now to the collection of words; something like this, maybe: -- If you have a CD-burner, ZIP, Jazz, removable HD or some such at "home" _and_ in a machine elsew

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

> > I believe most of your suggestions assume that the user has little or > > no knowledge of Unix. I'm operating under the assumption that most new > > users have knowledge of Unix and will already have run into things like > > \r\n line endings, man, info, etc. > > IMHO my suggestions adds just

RE: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 09:35, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > (1) > I had the impression that setup.exe saved paths within it's *ini-file or > some such; thus forcing one to have *exactly* the same path at cache-disk > creation AND use time. setup doesn't. :]. Rob -- GPG key avai

RE: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hannu, > > Your comments about installing Cygwin via setup using a local cache and/or > burning a CD to install from do have merit. Can you suggest some wording > that would describe a simple process that will wo

RE: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

> From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --8<-- > IIRC, the only gotcha about using setup's cache on a CD-R was to not put > it in the root of the CD-R (because of the way Windows omits the "\" from > the root path, and that confuses setup). Placing the cache in a > subdirectory, say, "

RE: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > > Of Joshua Daniel Franklin > > On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 08:54:11PM +0100, Hannu E K Nevalainen > > (garbage mail) wrote: > > > Suggestions for wording changes/expansion o

RE: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

Message: - From: Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:49:02 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Added setup.exe to User's Guide > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Joshua Daniel Franklin >

RE: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Joshua Daniel Franklin > On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 08:54:11PM +0100, Hannu E K Nevalainen > (garbage mail) wrote: > > Suggestions for wording changes/expansion of the text. > > I believe most of your suggestions assume that the user has

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 08:54:11PM +0100, Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) wrote: > Suggestions for wording changes/expansion of the text. I believe most of your suggestions assume that the user has little or no knowledge of Unix. I'm operating under the assumption that most new users have kno

RE: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

sage- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Joshua Daniel Franklin > Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 12:43 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Added setup.exe to User's Guide > > > I have made an attempt at documenting setup.exe here: > >

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

> > I also added an apostrophe to "Contributor's" > > Should be "Contributors'" IMO (multiple contributors - > "intended for _people_") I thought long and hard about this, and decided that I thought that it is a Guide for Each Contributor (singular). But, if there is a general plurality that it

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 11:56:00AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 10:39:40AM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > > I put a several people's comments inline here. > > I would still make the "Install For" explanation more direct. > Something like: > > The Install For o

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 01:23:29PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 10:39:40AM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > >I put a several people's comments inline here. > > I see that you didn't add a link for the CVS wishlist README as I suggested. > Was there some reason f

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 10:39:40AM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: >I put a several people's comments inline here. I see that you didn't add a link for the CVS wishlist README as I suggested. Was there some reason for that? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-sim

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 10:39:40AM -0600, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > I put a several people's comments inline here. Nice work, Joshua, thanks. I would still make the "Install For" explanation more direct. Something like: The Install For options of All Users or Just Me should always be All U

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

I also added an apostrophe to "Contributor's" at -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

I put a several people's comments inline here. --- "Pierre A. Humblet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Well, a lot of the problem is probably that it is somewhat mysterious to > >me as well. The way I see it, everyone should use "All Users" unless they > >don't have local Administrators privlidge, r

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 07:15:11PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > >> I have made an attempt at documenting setup.exe here: >> >> >> >> Veteran setup.exe users, please read and comment. >> Thanks!

Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide

On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > I have made an attempt at documenting setup.exe here: > > > > Veteran setup.exe users, please read and comment. > Thanks! Joshua, One thing wrong I see right away is the statement that for a sin

Added setup.exe to User's Guide

I have made an attempt at documenting setup.exe here: Veteran setup.exe users, please read and comment. Thanks! __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop