[m-rev.] for review: improve README.MS-Windows

[Simon Taylor]

On 22-May-2001, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> Estimated hours taken: 0.5
> Branches: main, release
> 
> README.MS-Windows:
> 	Document that Cygwin 1.3.1 is broken.
> 	Document that you need to `cd' to the appropriate directories.
> 	Document that the distribution needs to be unpacked with Cygwin's tar.
> 	Delete documentation about problems with datestamps, since they
> 	seem to be fixed now.

> Index: README.MS-Windows
> ===================================================================
> +UNPACKING THE SOURCES
> +
> +After installing Cygwin, you should download the Mercury source or
> +binary distribution, and unpack it.
> +
> +You should use Cygwin's tar program to unpack the Mercury distribution.
> +From a cygwin command shell, use the `cd' command to change directory
> +to the directory where you saved the source or binary distribution that
> +you downloaded, and then use `tar zxf <filename>' to unpack them,

s/them/it

> -RUNNING MAKE
> -
> -Under older versions of Cygwin the date-stamps of files seemed
> -to get screwed up by Cygwin; to avoid errors about 
> -`mercury_compile: Command not found', or `makeinfo: Command not found',
> -you need to do the following:
> -
> -	touch configure
> -	make touch_files

Is it worth removing the touch_files target?

Other than that, this change looks fine.

Simon.
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