Re: Searching in setup.exe

["Phil Edwards" <phil dot m dot edwards at gmail dot com>]

On 2/6/07, Dave Korn <dave.korn@artimi.com> wrote:
>   Oh c'mon....  you've read the docs, and it doesn't say so.  You've seen the
> GUI, and there's no possible place for a search box, or menu.  How can you
> still have to /ask/ someone?  Don't you have the slightest faith in your own
> common sense?  Trust yourself a bit more!  Where could this search option
> possibly /be/?  I know WJM, but we don't hide things that badly!

Consider it a deep-seated cynicism after years of working in software
development and being constantly surprised by "innovations" in user
interfaces.  I have no faith that I can think of all possible ways of
hiding things.


>   Anyway, the quick solution to your problem is to switch to the "full" view,

Ah, quite handy, thank you very much.  I agree, it doesn't seem worth
writing a "real" search, given this functionality.


> 2)  We could make the output from cygcheck -p return the package category, as
> well as the package name/path.

That would be ideal, from this user's perspective.

thank again!