'man' page for 'mintty' for review

[Lee D.Rothstein]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

 > On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 10:04:36AM +0100, Peter Rosin wrote:

 >> On 2009-02-05 20:47 Lee D.Rothstein wrote:

 >>> Please, if you would, review the attached 'man' page -- 'mintty.1'.
 >>> Andy Koppe intends to fold it into the 0.3.6 MinTTY release.
 >>> Comments, corrections, addtitions to this list, please.
 >>> 'man ./mintty.1.gz' will render the file (in the current directory)
 >>> without "installing" the page.
 >> "3.   Make sure that the Windows file spec for the folder that contains
 >>       both cygwin1.dll and mintty.exe (typically, c:/Cygwin/usr/bin) are

 >>       on the PATH variable, in the Windows System or User environment
 >>       variables space."I
 >>
 >> I would say that the typical location is C:\Cygwin\bin.
                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I have changed the text to 'C:\Cygwin\bin', correcting two errors by me:

   * path
   * path delimitor

Thanks, Peter.
  
BTB, the reason that I use the word "typically", is because Cygwin can be
installed in other directories (e.g., in my system, "root" is at 'c:\_r'),
not because I thought a different directory besides 'bin' would have the
executable.
  
 >> Later in the document:
 >>
 >> "First, PATH must include the Windows path of the /bin, where typically
 >>  both mintty.exe and cygwin1.dll' will be found. Remember, this is a"

Here, I think I have the path right, since, the Windows equivalent of '/bin'
is 'c:\Cygwin\bin', which means I don't understand the following comment
at all:

 >> I would say the Window path of /usr/bin here, since that is where the
 >> package is installed (but since /usr/bin is typically mirrored to /bin
 >> so that's perhaps a minor point).

In both cases, I'm talking about invoking 'mintty' from Windows, not Cygwin.

Windows can only "see" the excutables in /bin (through 'c:\Cygwin\bin' NOT
through 'c:\Cygwin\usr\bin'), however, and we're talking about what Windows
can "see" when you "fire up" the 'mintty' shortcut.

-- Peter?

 > /usr/bin is not in any way a Windows path so I don't think there is any
 > reason to change this.

Christopher? Did I create too much confusion by my other errors?

I doubt that any/all of the above are the only things wrong with the 
doc. ;-)

Thanks for the help.

Lee

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