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V i s h a l Kashyap @ [Sai Hertz And Control Systems] wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I was successfully today with installation of MinGW MinSys and then 
> compilation of  PostgreSQL on an
> WindowsXP SP1.
> 
> I have documented all my  steps for my convenience and would like to 
> know if someone else needs it or more appropriately
> would the document be accepted as PostgreSQL Windows How to ?
> 
> Kindly tell me know
> 1. How can I contribute this document to the comunity
> 2. Who is responsible for keeping the Windows Docs.
> 
> Some Spec about the document :
> 1. It is written in OpenOffice
> 2. With help of versioning system of Openoffice we can handle the 
> changes in future

Could you please post it on a webpage? When everybody gets to look at it and 
refine it, possibly it can be included in postgresql documentation.

Personally I am eagerly waiting to try postgresql on windows sicne I don't get 
to use linux much these days..:-(

  Shridhar