On Tue, July 29, 2008 3:13 pm, Brian Dessent wrote: > John Morrison wrote: > >> Would it be possible to extend the cgi >> >> http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi >> >> to (optionally) output plain text instead of the formatted HTML? >> >> Add a output=text instruction? If the source is available I'd be >> willing >> to see if I could do the mod. I was thinking of some kind of command >> line >> which would simplify the users finding out what package they would need >> to >> install to access a particular tool, for example on my ubuntu machine; > > This already exists, it's spelled "cygcheck -p".
I didn't know. Thanks for the sarcasm. God I'd forgotten just how nasty this list can be. And all for wanting to make cygwin a 'nicer' environment for new/inexperienced users. J.
