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Readme files
PLEASE remember what changes, especially for the user installing the software, between building and installing from source tarballs vs. installing distribution packages: When building from source, you have a README file with build and installation instructions (because it's obvious enough to authors that users need

Do users actually read READ.ME files?
Erick Kandl eka...@unitechsys.com bit listserv techwr-l <snip> "One of the senior engineers here wants the README file for our NT application to be in .doc rather that .txt format. Readme files are traditionally .txt files because that is the lowest common denominator to ensure everyone can open the file.

cannot open readme files/always in use
Convert MacPaint Converts MacPaint documents to .eps files. Convert TEXT Converts text files between NeXT and Macintosh text formats (thus, preserving `special' characters like bullets, printers quotes, etc). More details about all of these applications is available in their Help windows. (the .README files I've

mkisofs
Darren Salt li...@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk linux debian bugs dist kage: sysv-rc Severity: wishlist I believe that it is a good idea that there be a README file in all /etc/rc?.d in order to provide some help to the inexperienced in managing the start and stop symlinks. Most importantly, there should be warnings

readme files for different operating systems
Koen kvddr...@earthlink.net comp sys mac programmer help Hi, In OS 9 I had created a readme file for my app. It was a SimpleText document, with some PICTs embedded as a resource. I then put an option-space (IIRC), and the pics would show up at that position in the document. However - this doesn't work in OSX,

Readme files with references to fixed bugs
TXT NetWare Lite readme file NW311.TXT NetWare 3.11 server readme file NW2X.TXT NetWare 2.1x server readme file LMOS2.TXT LAN Manager 2.1 readme file for servers and OS/2 workstations LMDOS.TXT LAN Manager 2.1 readme file for DOS workstations LMRPL.TXT LAN Manager 2.1 readme file for RPL workstations NDIS.

How do you put a Readme file in the root of the distribution CD
Richard Person ric...@ix.netcom.com comp os os2 networking www In message <4ttplb$...@thor.cmp.ilstu.edu> - twsc...@acadcomp.cmp.ilstu.edu (Tom Schiebel)2 Aug 1996 20:49:47 GMT writes: When using WebX in ftp mode I often click on a README file and get the message, "There is no viewer registered for this type of

ReadMe files
The "readme" file should be readable, but will not work on double clicking. Many mac users (like many Windows users) are so familiar with double-click-to-open that they may be confused. They could open it in SimpleText, which they probably have, but some will not know how to start that. HyCD handles this, too - it

ReadMe Files
The separate README file that exists on the ftp archives may not necessarily follow the Opener.app.tar.Z file everywhere it will go. I've gotten a lot of heat for insisting< that the README >never< be a separate file from the product. The only "separate README" files on nova/sonata are basically indices to get

Patches, readme files
REBUS rebus@access(1).com bit listserv techwr-l Personally, I find readme files ridiculous on the Windows platform. Put this information into help. If your Help author creates a "readme" topic before hand, it takes the same amount of time to create a Readme Help topic as it does to create a readme text file.

ReadMe files - Format?
EDU Subject: ReadMe files? How would you characterize the difference between release notes and a ReadMe file? According to an an article by Mark Johnson in the Feb '97 issue of Tech Comm, people expect to find the following in a ReadMe file: * A list of bugs fixed since the last software release * A list of

ports/6478: Installation misses header file in rexx-imc
... server root) HEADER and README file? Try combining it with an AliasMatch like AliasMatch ^.*/README$ /README If you're afraid this might match files you don't want it to, use something like ReadmeName README_autoidx AliasMatch ^.*/README_mod_autoidx$ /README Header would work analogously. HTH. Cheers, Tilman.

Getting WebX to display README files
Debian Bug Tracking System ow...@bugs.debian.org debian bugs closed Your message dated Mon, 31 Dec 2001 22:40:47 -0600 with message-id <87u1u6u1io.fsf@glaurung. green-gryphon.com> and subject line Bug#127099: Duplicate README files with different version in package has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as

Import messages from Netscape comm.4.5 and readme files
BE bit listserv help-net Could someone please tell me what a "Read me" file is? I encounter this with ftp. Thank you. paulag Hi, Readme files are files which contain informations on how to install, configure a program or a descriptive of a program or a directory. Get them before getting other files and read it.

README FILES
Then you can install the directory with debhelper like that: dh_installdocs doc The copying could be done quite easily with a little makefile magic: files=foo/README bar/README all: $(files) %/README: echo cp $@ doc/$(@F).$(@D) I don't see the point; why not just copy the files to debian/package/usr/share/doc

Possible changed to initial README files in boot-floppies -walter
Dan O'Huiginn dan...@ohuiginn.net linux debian bugs dist Package: python2.5 Version: 2.5.1-5 Couple of documentation problems here, and a patch to fix them 1) README.maintainers and README.Debian contain old python version numbers. I've changed them to automatically contain the correct version number.

PLEASE: standard package README file/orientation
README running netscape on Tru64 4.0d It displays the html source. Has naybody else experienced this? All the .README's at ftp.service.digital.com have been HTML for a long time now. (Over a year.) If you want "flat text", you have to get the file with the .CVRLET_TXT at the end. I think it's unfortunate that the

Opener 3.0 -- tracking software usage via network
These short (40 characters) descriptions come from the .readme files uploaded along with the binaries. Whenever you upload something, create .readme file for it. An example: Along with PictureView.lha you would upload PictureView.readme. That file could look about like this (no blank lines at the start!

Any readme file about sample codes for windows
These short (40 characters) descriptions come from the .readme files uploaded along with the binaries. Whenever you upload something, create .readme file for it. An example: Along with PictureView.lha you would upload PictureView.readme. That file could look about like this (no blank lines at the start,

Aminet Uploads (a questio
eb...@pilot.msu.edu comp sys newton misc From: "Mark H. Ebell, MD, MS" <eb...@pilot.msu.edu> Subject: Re: Any readme file about sample codes for windows Date: 10 Jan 1997 00:37:50 GMT If you download the entire set of sample files (for Windows) you will get two readme files. Also, see the before script in the main