Author: mtredinnick
Date: 2007-02-10 03:07:54 -0600 (Sat, 10 Feb 2007)
New Revision: 4481

Modified:
   django/trunk/docs/django-admin.txt
Log:
Fixed #3159 -- documented how to work around a lack of symlinking functionality
on Windows (with respect to django-admin.py).


Modified: django/trunk/docs/django-admin.txt
===================================================================
--- django/trunk/docs/django-admin.txt  2007-02-10 09:02:00 UTC (rev 4480)
+++ django/trunk/docs/django-admin.txt  2007-02-10 09:07:54 UTC (rev 4481)
@@ -17,8 +17,12 @@
 The ``django-admin.py`` script should be on your system path if you installed
 Django via its ``setup.py`` utility. If it's not on your path, you can find it 
in
 ``site-packages/django/bin`` within your Python installation. Consider
-symlinking to it from some place on your path, such as ``/usr/local/bin``.
+symlinking it from some place on your path, such as ``/usr/local/bin``.
 
+For MS Windows users, who do not have symlinking functionality available, you
+can copy ``django-admin.py`` to a location on your existing path or edit the
+``PATH`` settings (under ``Settings - Control Panel - System - Advanced - 
Environment...``) to point to its installed location.
+
 Generally, when working on a single Django project, it's easier to use
 ``manage.py``. Use ``django-admin.py`` with ``DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE``, or the
 ``--settings`` command line option, if you need to switch between multiple


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