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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.

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