Re: setup.hint / ldesc

2003-09-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 02:07:09PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >where you are being asked to stop quoting email addresses in your text. Oops. I did the same thing in my reply. Sorry about that. I meant to edit the email addresses away before responding. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cy

Re: setup.hint / ldesc

2003-09-07 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 01:40:47PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote: >> * In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> * On the subject of "RE: setup.hint / ldesc" >> * Sent on Sun, 7 Sep 2003 12:25:09 +0200 >> * Honorable "Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)"

Re: setup.hint / ldesc

2003-09-07 Thread Sam Steingold
> * In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * On the subject of "RE: setup.hint / ldesc" > * Sent on Sun, 7 Sep 2003 12:25:09 +0200 > * Honorable "Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: setup.hint / ldesc

2003-09-07 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Sam Steingold > > Whats so hard in just following the recipe provided? > > why should I maintain two identical texts in two separate files? $ ln --help /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59?16.37'N, 17?12.60'E --END OF MESSAGE-- -

Re: setup.hint / ldesc

2003-09-05 Thread Sam Steingold
> * In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * On the subject of "Re: setup.hint / ldesc" > * Sent on Sat, 06 Sep 2003 07:27:21 +1000 > * Honorable Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 05:33, Sam Steingold wrote: > > &

Re: setup.hint / ldesc

2003-09-05 Thread Robert Collins
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 05:33, Sam Steingold wrote: > > The description of the setup.ini/setup.hint "language" at > > http://cygwin.com/setup.html is accurate. > > any plans to add something like that? > E.g., is a field starts with $, pass it to the shell... > > ldesc is not used at this time, so

Re: setup.hint / ldesc

2003-09-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:33:16PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote: >> * In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> * On the subject of "Re: setup.hint / ldesc" >> * Sent on Fri, 5 Sep 2003 15:02:43 -0400 >> * Honorable Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: setup.hint / ldesc

2003-09-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Sam Steingold wrote: > > * In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * On the subject of "Re: setup.hint / ldesc" > > * Sent on Fri, 5 Sep 2003 15:02:43 -0400 > > * Honorable Christopher Faylor writes: > > > > On Fri, Sep 05, 200

Re: setup.hint / ldesc

2003-09-05 Thread Sam Steingold
> * In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * On the subject of "Re: setup.hint / ldesc" > * Sent on Fri, 5 Sep 2003 15:02:43 -0400 > * Honorable Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:45:40PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote: &

Re: setup.hint / ldesc

2003-09-05 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Sam Steingold wrote: > RPM *.spec lets me include the summary from an external file: > > %description > %(cat SUMMARY) > > can I do something similar with setup.hint/ldesc? > I don't want to duplicate the same information twice. No, you can't. However, you can create a "setup

Re: setup.hint / ldesc

2003-09-05 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:45:40PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote: >RPM *.spec lets me include the summary from an external file: > >%description >%(cat SUMMARY) > >can I do something similar with setup.hint/ldesc? No. The description of the setup.ini/setup.hint "language" at http://cygwin.com/setup.