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Setup .gz file handling [was Re: Stuck trying to reinstall Emacs 23.0.92 and setup dying each time]
- From: Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:08:05 +0100
- Subject: Setup .gz file handling [was Re: Stuck trying to reinstall Emacs 23.0.92 and setup dying each time]
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KARR, DAVID (ATTCINW) wrote:
> It chugged for a bit, last
> displaying "Uninstalling emacs-el", then reported "setup.exe has
> encountered ...". After dismissing the dialog, I looked at /etc/setup
> again, and the corrupted "emacs-el.lst.gz" was there again.
I'm sending this here just to remind us (me?) that it would be great to put
some handlers around the gz file output so we can close it gracefully in the
event of an error.
cheers,
DaveK