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15 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Brian Inglis 573dda0cf2 winsup/doc/faq-api.xml(faq.api.timezone): explain time zone updates
based on material from tz@IANA.org mailing list sources
2020-08-27 10:53:58 +02:00
Brian Inglis ed97836149 winsup/doc/faq-api.xml, -programming.xml: change Win32 to Windows/API 2020-08-26 10:08:13 +02:00
Corinna Vinschen 44fe41a766 Cygwin: docs: revamp docs explaining symlinks
The descriptions of symlink handling are a bit dated, so
revamp them and add the new WSL symlink type.

Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
2020-04-03 21:44:00 +02:00
Michael Haubenwallner 6dd415caf5 forkables: Document hardlink creation at forktime.
* faq-api.xml: Mention hardlink creation by fork.
	* highlights.xml: Describe hardlink creation.
2019-02-07 15:58:02 +01:00
Corinna Vinschen 3476c8c868 cygwin: doc: cleanup cygutils info
Especially don't keep on about d2u and u2d.  Dos2unix exists.

Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
2017-12-05 17:58:02 +01:00
Corinna Vinschen 445036bb98 Remove Mingw.org from FAQ, or replace with Mingw-w64.
* faq-api.xml: Change MingW to Mingw-w64.
	* faq-programming.xml: Ditto.

Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
2016-03-21 21:09:23 +01:00
Corinna Vinschen 83029bb69e Remove references to older Cygwin releases from documentation
Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
2016-03-18 22:52:04 +01:00
Corinna Vinschen db9a8c9983 * Throughout, replace http with https as far as cygwin.com and
sourceware.org URLs are concerned.
	* Throughout, simplify ulink expressions if the visible text is the
	URL anyway.
	* faq-programming.xml (faq.programming.dll-relocatable): Remove.
	* faq-setup.xml (faq.setup.name-with-space): Change for 1.7.34.
	(faq.setup.home): Ditto.
	* faq-using.xml (faq.using.printing): Clarify old links and availability
	of a2ps and file.
	(faq.using.xemacs): Drop outdated version info and pointers to native
	XEmacs.
	(faq.using.ntemacs): Remove.
	* faq-what.xml (faq.what.what): Rephrase to reflect reality.
	(faq.what.supported): Ditto.
	(faq.what.who): Rephrase slightly.
	* legal.xml: Bump copyright.
	* setup-net.xml (internet-setup): Fix references to setup executables.
2015-02-03 13:48:43 +00:00
Warren Young 8142972d87 Modernized user guide, API reference, and FAQ generation. Overall
effect is to move away from DocBook SGML and DJ Delorie's doctool and
toward pure DocBook XSL.  (There remains just one use of doctool, and
we have plans for replacing it, too.)  See ChangeLog for details.
2013-05-01 23:30:25 +00:00
Yaakov Selkowitz 954515b011 * faq-api.xml: d2u/u2d are from cygutils, not util-linux. 2010-01-26 19:26:59 +00:00
Corinna Vinschen 7ccfe2c70e * faq-using.xml (faq.using.unicode): Modernize.
(faq.api.symlinkstoppedworking): Move here from faq-api.xml.
2009-03-31 10:54:28 +00:00
Corinna Vinschen ffb5ddd565 * cygwinenv.sgml: Add text to explain new UTF-16 symlinks.
* faq-api.xml: Add FAQ entry "Why do some of my old symlinks don't
	work anymore?"
	* new-features.sgml: Fix symlink text.  Add new UTF-16 symlinks.
	* overview2.sgml: Add text about new UTF-16 symlinks and potential
	problems with old symlinks.
	* pathnames.sgml: Fix typo.
	* setup2.sgml: Extend text about problems with symlinks.
2009-03-26 12:25:11 +00:00
Corinna Vinschen bb549dfed8 * Makefile.in (FAQ_SOURCES): Define FAQ sources.
(faq/faq.html): Depend on FAQ sources.
	(faq/faq-nochunks.html): Ditto.
	* faq-api.xml: Revamp for Cygwin 1.7.
	* faq-problems.xml: Remove.
	* faq-sections.xml: Accommodate removal of faq-problems.xml.
	* faq.xml: Ditto.
2009-02-11 16:44:13 +00:00
Joshua Daniel Franklin 3d4beb5344 Replace references to depracated Win32_Winsock macro with __USE_W32_WINSOCK 2006-06-02 04:35:26 +00:00
Joshua Daniel Franklin 2041777dee Update to switch FAQ from texinfo to DocBook. 2005-08-06 05:14:41 +00:00