Added setup.exe to User's Guide

Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail) garbage_collector@telia.com
Sun Mar 23 23:04:00 GMT 2003


 Suggestions for wording changes/expansion of the text.

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> The Default Text File Type
	indicates "end of line" style and
> should be left
	set to/as
> Unix (that is, \n) unless you have
> a very good reason to switch it to DOS (that is, \r\n).

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>Local Package Directory
 Append something like the following to the paragraph:
There are circumstances when it is useful to use the cache as "local package
directory" for installation on another system than the primary one.
This is currently NOT directly supported by setup.exe, but can be achieved
in a number of ways.
Information regarding this has yet to be gathered here. Currently it is
spread out amongst the postings on the mailing lists, especially the
"cygwin" list.

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> Choosing Mirrors
> Since there is no way of knowing from where you will be downloading
Cygwin,
> you need to
	manually
> choose at least one mirror site


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> Choosing Packages
> <Last in paragraph> For
	technical
> details about the format of this file...


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>Post-Install Scripts
> <last in parafraph> Relevant documentation
	regarding this - and other issues -
> can be found in the /usr/doc/Cygwin/ directory.


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Documentation pointers
When you have installed your choice of packages from cygwin;
you will have relevant text files in the /usr/doc/Cygwin/ directory.
Also have a look at http://cygwin.com/faq/,
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html (API:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/cygwin-api.html)
which are linked to from http://www.cygwin.com/ (Documentation)

General Unix/Bash/Command documentation
Using the "man command-name" and "info command-name" commands will give you
terse but informative texts to read regarding the use of <command> and/or
<keyword> (Please note: replace "command-name" with something relevant).
The Bash command shell will tell you more about its contents with the use of
"help command-name"
Enter man, info or help on its own to display terse information on available
options for man, info and help respectively. Appending " --help | less" to
these (and any other) command(s) often creates a more verbose version of the
option description.
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/Hannu E K Nevalainen, Mariefred, Sweden

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
> Of Joshua Daniel Franklin
> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 12:43 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Added setup.exe to User's Guide
>
>
> I have made an attempt at documenting setup.exe here:
>
> <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-net.html>
>
> Veteran setup.exe users, please read and comment.
> Thanks!
>
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