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Brian Dessent wrote: > The idea behind texinfo is a format-independent way of writing > documentation. 'info' is just one of a million ways to view this same > documentation. [...] Yes, especially for make, I've found the info files to be the best reference, and they're easily navigable. I'm in t

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The second hit on google got me a page from the texinfo manual on using vi key bindings: . -jake -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubs

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Bob McConnell wrote: > This is not exactly a cygwin question, but can anyone point me to a > decent man page about writing Makefiles for GNU make 3.81? I tried to > use info, but can't make heads nor tails of the navigation methods for > that atrocity. The 'info' program has a long history of bei

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On 07 August 2007 16:00, Bob McConnell wrote: >>> I tried to >>> use info, but can't make heads nor tails of the navigation methods for >>> that atrocity. >> >> Use the cursor keys to scroll around the page. Press Enter to follow a >> link, 'l' to go back in the history, 'u' to go up a level i

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> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Korn > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 9:34 AM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: RE: Looking for man pages > > On 07 August 2007 14:14, Bob McConnell wrote: > >

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On 07 August 2007 14:14, Bob McConnell wrote: > This is not exactly a cygwin question, but can anyone point me to a > decent man page about writing Makefiles for GNU make 3.81? There's a free version of the o'Reilly book available: http://www.wanderinghorse.net/computing/make/ > I tried to

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Hi Bob, > This is not exactly a cygwin question, but can anyone point me to a > decent man page about writing Makefiles for GNU make 3.81? I tried to > use info, but can't make heads nor tails of the navigation methods for > that atrocity. Try the command 'info make' on your shell. Cheers, i.A.

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On Jun 28 15:42, Brian Dessent wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > If you could > > check it in to the branch and generate new web docs from there, I'd be > > very glad. > > Done. It should be live on the website now too. Let me know if there's > anything that looks off. Thanks for doing th

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Corinna Vinschen wrote: > If you could > check it in to the branch and generate new web docs from there, I'd be > very glad. Done. It should be live on the website now too. Let me know if there's anything that looks off. By the way I think we should remove this cruft from the cygwin-api.in.sgm

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> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Dessent > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 4:48 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Looking for man pages > > Bob McConnell wrote: > > > OK, so the first ste

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Bob McConnell wrote: > OK, so the first step is to convert the SUS HTML into a more usable > format. Or do they already make the source files available? Then verify > and add details to the compatibility list, and finally apply the > differences defined to the files from step one. Only the second

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On Jun 28 13:12, Brian Dessent wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > No, it doesn't. It's still the old documentation not updated for... at > > least... no, even longer. The new one reflects the state of Cygwin from > > CVS/recent snapshots. Did I mention how much such a project depends on > > vo

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> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Dessent > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 3:53 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Looking for man pages > > Bob McConnell wrote: > > > But you are se

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At 28-6-2007 21:07, Bob McConnell wrote: I can't find any links to anything other than one sample man page. Here they are: http://tldp.org/manpages/man.php Regards, Frank -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html

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Corinna Vinschen wrote: > No, it doesn't. It's still the old documentation not updated for... at > least... no, even longer. The new one reflects the state of Cygwin from > CVS/recent snapshots. Did I mention how much such a project depends on > volunteers, lately? You're saying that the docs

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On Jun 28 12:53, Brian Dessent wrote: > Cygwin includes a list of which functions from the various standards it > implements and where it differs. This is at > , though I don't know if > this reflects the recent cleanup that was done to this documentat

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Bob McConnell wrote: > But you are sending me to the SUS documentation, which is also missing > those differences? That seems rather counter productive. > The SUSv3 (POSIX) specifies an abstract ideal standard, not any one particular implementation. The Linux manpages document a specific implem

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On Jun 28 15:38, Bob McConnell wrote: > But you are sending me to the SUS documentation, which is also missing > those differences? That seems rather counter productive. It's not. Cygwin is trying to be POSIX compliant if possible. The SUSv3 docs are the base of our work. > Are there any docume

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On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 12:18:11PM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: >Bob McConnell wrote: > >> I can't find any links to anything other than one sample man page. We >> already have copies of that spec, although I have never had any cause to >> read it. > >Wha? The SUSv3 is extremely thorough, consistin

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> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Dessent > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 3:18 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Looking for man pages > > Bob McConnell wrote: > > > I can't fin

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Bob McConnell wrote: > I can't find any links to anything other than one sample man page. We > already have copies of that spec, although I have never had any cause to > read it. Wha? The SUSv3 is extremely thorough, consisting of many hundreds of man pages:

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> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Corinna Vinschen > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 2:03 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Looking for man pages > > On Jun 28 12:11, Bob McConnell wrote: > > Where

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On Jun 28 12:11, Bob McConnell wrote: > Where can I get a full set of Cygwin man pages for the C library? I am > tired of seeing this: The man pages for sections 2 and 3 are not available and they never were. Basically we could use the man pages from the Linux Documentation Project (http://tldp.o

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> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Drash > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 12:55 PM > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Looking for man pages > > Using the google search bar "man gettimeofday",

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Using the google search bar "man gettimeofday", I was able to find the man page for that function and many others. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: