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Re: Not being given the option of installing packages on setup


On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, René Berber wrote:

> Igor Peshansky wrote:
> [snip]
> >>> Please make sure your mailer respects the Reply-To: header -- I set
> >>> it for a reason.  Both Dave and I read the list regularly -- it was
> >>> not necessary to Cc: us.
>
> Practice what you preach.  You are also sending cc (to me at least), and
> you do it all the time.

Yes, I do.  At the time I wrote the above, I was under the impression that
Dave also set his Reply-To to the list.  I later discovered that it was
not the case, but forgot to delete the relevant text.

The bottom line is: if you want to receive email on the list, set
Reply-To: (like I do).  Otherwise most mailers will include your address
in the To: field.  If the Reply-To: is set and the mailer *still* sends
email directly to you, the mailer is broken.

> [snip]
> >> Thanks for the note on not cc'ing you. I don't know how to reply to a
> >> message if it doesn't come into my inbox. The messages I got from
> >> Dave and from Rene earlier today only went to the list, and I can
> >> only see them by looking at the archives.
> >
> > You can subscribe to the list, and all messages sent to the list will
> > arrive in your inbox.
>
> Or you can read the messages from a newsgroup reader, no need to
> subscribe.  I use my regular email reader Thunderbird for this,
> connected to gmane.news; you can reply directly from that setting.

True.

> [snip]
> > So perl was not installed on your laptop.  When you attached the
> > output of "cygcheck -svr", was that from the laptop or from the
> > desktop?\
>
> The output didn't show perl installed (in
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/77022).

Also true -- I was just too lazy to go back and check... :-)

> [snip]
> > WinNT means NT-based Windows systems (which includes Win2k and WinXP).
> > At the top left of the console window frame there should be an icon.
> > Clicking that icon brings up a menu (you can also get that menu by
> > right-clicking on the console title bar).  The last item in that menu
> > is "Properties" -- that's what the FAQ entry refers to.
>
> But it's not there if you are using rxvt, only if you use the regular
> cmd window (a.k.a. Command prompt).

The FAQ entry is titled "How can I copy and paste into Cygwin console
windows?".  Aside from mentioning rxvt in the first paragraph, the rest of
the entry talks about the console window.  Not only that, when the FAQ
talks about the "Properties" dialog, it explicitly says: "open the
properties dialog *of the console window*".  How it could be interpreted
as talking about rxvt is beyond me.

Granted, the entry could be a bit more specific about which properties
dialog it's talking about.

> Keep it simple people.

<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>. :-)
	Igor
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