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RE: missing telnet, solution
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "mstucky5" <mstucky5 at cox dot net>,"Cygwin at Cygwin dot Com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>,<cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 10:56:56 +1100
- Subject: RE: missing telnet, solution
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mstucky5 [mailto:mstucky5@cox.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 10:10 AM
> To: Cygwin@Cygwin.Com; cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: missing telnet, solution
>
>
> This whole thread got me thinking about possible ways
> to avoid this "xxx is missing" problem...
>
> I thought that I'd throw an idea out for discussion...
>
> Would it make sense to have setup install a dummy
> script for some of the common utilities and then
> overwrite that script with the actual utility if
> it is selected from the gui as it should be?
In debian, there is a package that will do this - I think it that when a
binary is not found it queries dpkg to see if a package that can provide
it exists.
Anyway, I think that an _automated_ approach to this could be quite
useful, but not a manual one. (I realise that you didn't imply either,
I'm simply getting there first :}).
Rob