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cygwin-apps link documentation unclear
- From: John Sellers <jsellers_nospam at sellers dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:23:57 -0800
- Subject: cygwin-apps link documentation unclear
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This seems obvious, but seasoned users forget that newbees do not have a
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Actually "the cygwin mailing list" would be better than "the main cygwin
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