Re: ssmtp man page (Was: Re: sending email from cygwin) gold star
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 09:53:44PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 02:25:32PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: I'm partial to: cygcheck -l ssmtp|fgrep README|xargs less myself. Works for other packages, too. Hey, nice use of tools. Can we get a gold star here for a clever use of utilities? This is something that I'll be using myself in the future. cgf You sure can. Just for the archives, though (not to downplay the original achievement), this will also display any other READMEs contained in the package. Intentional. If you only want the Cygwin-specific one, this incantation might be more appropriate: cygcheck -l ssmtp|grep doc/Cygwin/.*README|xargs less -- 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/
Re: ssmtp man page (Was: Re: sending email from cygwin) gold star
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 02:25:32PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 12:01:03PM +1000, luke.kendall wrote: This is a usability issue. It's hard enough to teach people to type: man command-name teaching them to type: more /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/ssmtp-0.x.y/README.ssmtp-0.x.y I'm partial to: cygcheck -l ssmtp|fgrep README|xargs less myself. Works for other packages, too. Hey, nice use of tools. Can we get a gold star here for a clever use of utilities? This is something that I'll be using myself in the future. 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/
Re: ssmtp man page (Was: Re: sending email from cygwin) gold star
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 02:25:32PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 12:01:03PM +1000, luke.kendall wrote: This is a usability issue. It's hard enough to teach people to type: man command-name teaching them to type: more /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/ssmtp-0.x.y/README.ssmtp-0.x.y I'm partial to: cygcheck -l ssmtp|fgrep README|xargs less myself. Works for other packages, too. Hey, nice use of tools. Can we get a gold star here for a clever use of utilities? This is something that I'll be using myself in the future. cgf You sure can. Just for the archives, though (not to downplay the original achievement), this will also display any other READMEs contained in the package. If you only want the Cygwin-specific one, this incantation might be more appropriate: cygcheck -l ssmtp|grep doc/Cygwin/.*README|xargs less HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster. -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/
Re: ssmtp man page (Was: Re: sending email from cygwin) gold star
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 09:53:44PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 02:25:32PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 12:01:03PM +1000, luke.kendall wrote: This is a usability issue. It's hard enough to teach people to type: man command-name teaching them to type: more /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/ssmtp-0.x.y/README.ssmtp-0.x.y I'm partial to: cygcheck -l ssmtp|fgrep README|xargs less myself. Works for other packages, too. Hey, nice use of tools. Can we get a gold star here for a clever use of utilities? This is something that I'll be using myself in the future. You sure can. Just for the archives, though (not to downplay the original achievement), this will also display any other READMEs contained in the package. If you only want the Cygwin-specific one, this incantation might be more appropriate: cygcheck -l ssmtp|grep doc/Cygwin/.*README|xargs less Thanks for the clarification. -- 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/
