RE: CYGWIN: User's Guide as One-File

[Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux at microprocess dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 5:37 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: CYGWIN: User's Guide as One-File
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:31:10AM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK 
> Partners, Inc) wrote:
> >At 09:38 AM 7/24/2001, Andre Theiler wrote:
> >
> >>Dear Sirs,
> >>
> >>is the cygwin-Dokumentation available as one (big) HTML-File
> >>or as a archive of single HTMLs? I ask this because I am often
> >>without a network. So, it was nice to have a Online-doc!
> >
> >
> >The on-line documents found at http://www.cygwin.com/docs.html can be
> >found in the winsup/doc directory of CVS.
> 
> Or just use a tool like "wget" to download the docs directly to your
> machine, e.g.
> 
> wget -r http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html
> 

It would be nice to have a documentation package that contains all these
docs (and maybe install a link on the desktop/Start menu) so that one can
browse the doc locally.

Please don't flame me: I know these will be obsolete as soon as they are
downloaded, but setup.exe will make it so simple to upgrade them that it's
not TOO bad. 

OTOH this is a big win for people that, for various reasons, cannot access
the internet at all times (like a lot of our developers that are not on a
connected network). Currently I have to download pieces manually and I'm
sure it's VERY obsolete (as I have NO WAY to know if something has changed).

Allowing just to start "setup" once a week and pick the updates if any would
be a lot more convenient and help to keep the local docs quite up-to-date.

Best regards, and thanks for the excellent tool that is cygwin.

	Bernard

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