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@ -6,12 +6,15 @@ If you are willing to be a package maintainer, great. We urgently need
volunteers to prepare and maintain packages, because the priority of the
Cygwin Team is Cygwin itself.
There will be a separate web page where all the details are documented,
but this is not prepared yet. Meanwhile, pore through the cygwin-apps
mailing archives (start at @file{http://cygwin.com/lists.html}), and
subscribe. Charles Wilson posted a short recipe of what's involved,
using texinfo as an example,
at @file{http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2000-11/msg00055.html}. This
There's a Cygwin Contributor's Guide on the project web page available
here @file{http://cygwin.com/setup.html}, which details everything you'll
need to know about being a package maintainer. If you need any extra
help you can ask on cygwin-apps @emph{at} cygwin @emph{dot} com mailing
list, or alternatively you can search the cygwin-apps archives
(start at @file{http://http://cygwin.com/lists.html}), as your question
may well have been asked before. Charles Wilson posted a short recipe
of what's involved, using texinfo as an example, available at
@file{http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2000-11/msg00055.html}. This
should give you an idea of what is required.
You should announce your intentions to the general cygwin list, in case

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@ -18,10 +18,6 @@ There is a comprehensive Cygwin User's Guide at
and an API Reference at
@file{http://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/cygwin-api.html}.
There is an interesting paper about Cygwin from the 1998 USENIX Windows
NT Workshop Proceedings at
@file{http://cygwin.com/usenix-98/cygwin.html}.
You can find documentation for the individual GNU tools at
@file{http://www.fsf.org/manual/}. (You should read GNU manuals from a
local mirror, check @file{http://www.fsf.org/server/list-mirrors.html}

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@ -32,18 +32,17 @@ exhibit different limitations, on the various versions of Windows.
@section Where can I get it?
The main location for the Cygwin project is
@file{http://cygwin.com/}. There you should find
everything you need for Cygwin, including links for download and setup,
a current list of ftp mirror sites, a User's Guide, an API Reference,
mailing lists and archives, and additional ported software.
The home page for the Cygwin project is @file{http://cygwin.com/}.
There you should find everything you need for Cygwin, including links
for download and setup, a current list of ftp mirror sites,
a User's Guide, an API Reference, mailing lists and archives, and
additional ported software.
You can find documentation for the individual GNU tools at
@file{http://www.fsf.org/manual/}. (You should read GNU manuals from a
local mirror. Check @file{http://www.fsf.org/server/list-mirrors.html}
for a list of them.)
@section Is it free software?
Yes. Parts are GNU software (gcc, gas, ld, etc...), parts are covered