From: Earnie B. <ea...@us...> - 2004-11-16 13:12:01
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Posted on DATE by AUTHOR Lennart Borgman > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Luke Dunstan" <cod...@ho...> > >> No, but the "WELCOME" document says: >> >> The /bin and /usr/bin directories are reserved for MSYS use. Do not > install >> binaries that are not dependant on the msys-1.0.dll into those >> directories > > Hi Luke, > > Thanks, I am beginning to understand why I missed that. I was reading the > README document. The README document does not say the above but instead: > > "Msys will convert POSIX paths that are used as arguments to Win32 paths. > This is done for any executable not in /bin and /usr/bin." > > I believed this meant you should place them in /bin or /usr/bin if you did > not want the conversion. Maybe it would be good to move all the relevant > info to one place, eg README? > I need to modify the README for 1.0.11 anyway. I will consider modifications to the WELCOME and README documents. For 1.0.11 the matter of /bin and /usr/bin being reserved is a mute point as the restriction has been removed. > BTW is it only me that would want the documentation to be in HTML format > instead of RTF? > A matter of author preference and my preference hasn't changed. There are utilities that you can use to convert the RTF format to HTML if you wish to convert them. Just use google to find them. I will only provide the RTF files. Earnie |