Fw: Re: Documentation for cygutils

["Ashwin N" <ashwin_n at lycos dot co dot uk>]

FischRon.external@infineon.com wrote:
>> Ronald Fischer <fischron.external@infineon.com> wrote:
>>> Where can I find documentation about the cygutils, in particular
>>> about conv. I installed
>>> them, but there seems to be no man page or info node (neither for
>>> 'conv' nor for 'cygutils').
>> 
>> Use the "--help" suffix on the utilities. Like:
>> $ conv --help
> 
> How easy! Thank you for pointing this out.
> 
> I was not aware of the --help switch, and when I did a
> 
>   conv --usage
> 
> the --help switch is not mentioned (maybe it would be a good idea to
> add "--help" to the output of "--usage".
> 
>> Also, look in the "/usr/share/doc/cygutils-x.x.x/" directory.
>> Particularly, the file "PROGLIST" within it.
> 
> For whatever reason, it is /usr/doc/cygutils-1.1.3 on my system. I had
> looked there, but PROGLIST mentions only that conv is used to convert
> between Unix and DOS line endings (which I already knew), but does
> not describe what command line switches to use.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Ronald

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Ashwin N.
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