ssmtp man page (Was: Re: sending email from Cygwin)

2004-07-15 Thread luke . kendall
On 15 Jul, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Incidentally is it appropriate to include Cygwin-port-specific > > information in a man page? > > Well, from a user perspective it might be cool, but IMHO the original > man page shouldn't be changed, unless it's a change which should be > send up

Re: ssmtp man page (Was: Re: sending email from Cygwin)

2004-07-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 16 12:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 15 Jul, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > Incidentally is it appropriate to include Cygwin-port-specific > > > information in a man page? > > > > Well, from a user perspective it might be cool, but IMHO the original > > man page shouldn't be cha

Re: ssmtp man page (Was: Re: sending email from Cygwin)

2004-07-16 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 16 12:01, luke.kendallcisra.canon.com.au wrote: > > On 15 Jul, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > Incidentally is it appropriate to include Cygwin-port-specific > > > > information in a man page? > > > > > > Well, from a user perspective it mig

Re: ssmtp man page (Was: Re: sending email from Cygwin)

2004-07-16 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
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 > > 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

Re: ssmtp man page (Was: Re: sending email from cygwin)

2004-07-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
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 >> >> teaching them to type: >> >> more /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/ssmt

Re: ssmtp man page (Was: Re: sending email from cygwin)

2004-07-16 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
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 > >> > >> teaching

Re: ssmtp man page (Was: Re: sending email from cygwin)

2004-07-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
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 h

Re: ssmtp man page (Was: Re: sending email from cygwin)

2004-07-17 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
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

RE: ssmtp man page (Was: Re: sending email from Cygwin)

2004-07-18 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski > Sent: 16 July 2004 20:12 > > > This is a usability issue. It's hard enough to teach > people to type: > > > > > > man > > > > > > teaching them to type: > > > > > > more /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/ssmtp-0.x.y/READ

RE: ssmtp man page (Was: Re: sending email from Cygwin)

2004-07-18 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (= Dave K, I believe) > Another possibility would be for the very last dialog in setup.exe, > the one that says "download/install complete", to also say in very > big letters "For Cygwin-specific documentation, see > /usr/share/doc/Cygwin". It could maybe even have a tic

RE: ssmtp man page (Was: Re: sending email from Cygwin)

2004-07-18 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:51 AM 7/18/2004, you wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >(= Dave K, I believe) >> Another possibility would be for the very last dialog in setup.exe, >> the one that says "download/install complete", to also say in very >> big letters "For Cygwin-specific documentation, see >> /usr/share/doc/

RE: ssmtp man page (Was: Re: sending email from Cygwin)

2004-07-18 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Larry Hall > Sent: 18 July 2004 18:13 > At 10:51 AM 7/18/2004, you wrote: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >(= Dave K, I believe) > >> Another possibility would be for the very last dialog in > setup.exe, > >> the one that says "downlo

Re: ssmtp man page (Was: Re: sending email from cygwin)

2004-07-19 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 01:43:18PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >>Another possible place to mention the Cygwin-specific READMEs is in the >>"man cygwin" page. :-) > >Another possibility would be for the very last dialog in setup.exe, the >one that says "download/install complete", to also say in very b