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Re: API Reference documentation
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 09:45:50PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 09:07:40PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>> >On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Carlo Florendo wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hello David,
>> >>
>> >> >From: "David Power"
>> >>
>> >> > Please could you make the API documentation available
>> >> > as a downloadable html or pdf file.
>> >>
>> >> It is. The link to the API appears in the main page of cygwin.com :-)
>> >>
>> >> > I don't have permanent access to the web. I download
>> >> > what I can when I can and use it on a stand alone
>> >> > workstation.
>> >> >
>> >> > It would be very useful to me to have the API
>> >> > reference at my fingertips for whenever I needed it.
>> >>
>> >> Get it from http://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/cygwin-api.html :-)
>> >>
>> >> Best Regards,
>> >> Carlo
>> >
>> >David,
>> >
>> >Just to expand on this a little bit, the above is not as mean as it
>> >sounds. Try 'wget -r http://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/cygwin-api.html'. ;-)
>>
>> Or, just install the cygwin-doc package.
>
>D'oh!!! However, the cygwin-doc package could itself benefit from better
>documentation. ;-) There is no mention of cygwin-api in any of the
>readmes.
What would you expect to find in a cygwin doc package other than
documentation about cygwin? It's also listed in the info dir file, just
like all other info documentation on cygwin or any other UNIX-like
system. Just typing 'info' shows you what cygwin doc info is available.
And please don't tell me that there needs to be a a README pointing
people at info...
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