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Re: [postmaster@sources.redhat.com] This is all very silly...
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-rcm at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: Ian Johnson <icj at primus dot ca>
- Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 19:40:11 -0400
- Subject: Re: [postmaster@sources.redhat.com] This is all very silly...
- References: <000201c32d1a$7682a960$15a25ad1@Ian> <20030607183129.GA26572@redhat.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 02:31:29PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>[reply-to set to cygwin SPLAT cygwin]
>On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 10:29:20AM -0700, Ian Johnson wrote:
>>...do you want people to use cygwin or not?
>>So off I go looking for the sources to compile and lo and behold I find
>>a link ( http://cygwin.com/packages/ ) to what I think should be the
>>source for the man package and what do I get:
>
>You are either confused about the term "source code" or you are unable to
>determine what "source code" is. This *is* the listing for the source
>code.
>
>> man: Man, apropos and whatis (source code)
>> Mon Dec 16 17:16:05 2002 17982 man-1.5j-2/COPYING
>> Mon Dec 16 17:16:05 2002 807 man-1.5j-2/HISTORY
>> Mon Dec 16 17:16:05 2002 2861 man-1.5j-2/INSTALL
>> Mon Dec 16 17:16:05 2002 990 man-1.5j-2/LSM
>> Mon Dec 16 17:16:06 2002 2357 man-1.5j-2/Makefile
>> Mon Dec 16 17:16:05 2002 2365 man-1.5j-2/Makefile.in
>
>>BUT KNOW SOURCE CODE. What is up with that?
I wanted to apologize for *my* cluelessness here. The original poster
was looking for source code and knew what source code was. I ass*u*me*d
that he didn't. I was completely wrong in my interpretation of this
part of his message.
To answer this question: the source code is downloadable via setup.exe
or from the mirror sites.
cgf
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