On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 09:16:22AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:44:38AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:35:40AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: >>>Pah! The User's Guide. That's just a document full of useful >>>information. Why would anyone want to read that? ;-) >> >>Maybe we need a howto on reading the user's guide. It should certainly >>be in the FAQ that people should read the documentation. How would >>people know that they should read the documentation unless it was >>spelled out somewhere in black and white? > >You know, the thing that really bugs me about cygwin is the half-baked >attempts at documentation. A FAQ entry suggesting reading the User's >Guide is completely useless unless the User's Guide tells people to >read the FAQ.
Absolutely agree, as long as there is a howto on reading both the FAQ and the User's Guide. Maybe the user's guide could also mention the howto. 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/