Helping new SN users (Re: Printing XREF from SN 5.0)

[Mo DeJong <mdejong at cygnus dot com>]

On Tue, 29 May 2001, Hugo Varotto wrote:

> Hi Mo,

Hi Hugo.
 
> could you please expand a little bit what you need with respect to the README
> files ? I'm not an expert writing documentation neiter an expert in Source
> Navigator, but I'll try to help as much as I can.
> 
> Hugo

For one thing, we want to try to stick to existing best practices.

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/standards/standards.text

I would think a README and INSTALL file at the very least.
There is already a toplevel README but it does not help
much. What we want it a README that tells people a bit
about Source-Navigator, what it does, why it is useful,
and where to find info about how to build and INSTALL it.

The goal of these initial help files is simply to help
people get started. We don't want people to give up
without even trying simply because they don't know
where to get started (sadly, this is a real problem).

Of course, if you want to know what types of getting
started questions folks are likely to ask, just
go to the source.

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/sourcenav/

Mo DeJong
Red Hat Inc