If you people simply want to flame me, fine. But everything I said is true:
a) I had problems that no true Windows newbie could have solved from reading any amount of your "documentation". b) this or that man page is NOT documentation. (Man pages will eventually be outlawed under the Geneva Convention as a form of torture.) c) after not finding answers, I spent three days searching for this and that clue, scavenger-hunt-style... d) ... where I encountered many of Jon T's answers, and, yes, they were all quite brusque and patronizing -- which put me off wanting to get on your mailing list. e) ...where I got some good help from a nice young man, but then patronized by a not-so-nice person who blew off all my legitimate complains and problems to patronize me -- as he has done many others. f) Microsoft's main dig against "open source" software still has a ring of truth to it, i.e., whenever you leave the customer-provider business relationship (where there's money on the table and even laws), you very well might encounter this sort of attitude and behavior. That being, of course, providers who don't care about customers, or don't even see end-users as customers, but as hoards of pests sucking up their valuable time with frivolous questions. So if cygwin is on the front lines of trying to win Windows users over to GNU/Linux, then we have a problem. I, for one, would expect cygwin to be inundated with clueless newbies who are a) not very computer saavy (e.g. what newbie would have done a rebase all?) b) nervous and in a hurry about deviating so far from Big Redmond Brother, i.e., not good with "challenging" documentation, likely to do stupid things. c) needing lots of hand-holding and not much scolding. I could go on (and on and on), but I hope you got my drift. Olwe Grand Marais, MN -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/