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Re: Added setup.exe to User's Guide


At 14:15 2003-03-27, you wrote:
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 04:11:35PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >***Groan***!  Oh, no!  Now look what you've done!
> >Next thing you know, we'll be having a contest for the best Cygwin
> >documentation poem!  With the winner being awarded "gold stars" by cgf!
> >;-)
>
> Let the games begin.  If it's cygwin related it won't be a sin.  So, no
> reason to be mean and it will even be humorous; or maybe that remains to
> be seen.

There was a young woman named Linda.
She had problems installing a window:
As she clicked on setup,
It just crashed with a pop,
And then burned her machine to a cinder.

> Still waiting for that gold star web page.  Elfyn?  You volunteering?
> cgf

Oh, *that*...  I have that ready to check in.  Except...  What was Elfyn's
first star for?  Can't find it in the archives...
    Igor


Igor,

From the subject thread entitled "[PATCH] Trivial pthread testsuite fixes":

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:23:31PM -0000, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
>> On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
>>
>> > Brian,
>> >
>> > Your patch may get more attention from the cygwin-patches mailing list
>as
>> > per <http://cygwin.com/lists.html>.
>> >
>>
>> Yes, but it is by subscription only.
>>
>> I prefer to read the archives, at least until they are password protected
>> also.  It seems silly to me that in order to submit a Cygwin patch to the
>> appropriate mailing list, you must receive all such patches in your
>> inbox.
>
>If you just want posting privilages read the last few (4-5) lines of
><http://www.cygwin.com/ml/#rbl-sucks>.

**cgf sends Elfyn a virtual gold star.

cgf


I think the gold star was for pointing a plaintiff to the on-line documentation

Randall Schulz


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