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Re: Suggestion: commandline version of setup.exe or schedulable setup.exe
- To: Jeff <nobody at example dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: Suggestion: commandline version of setup.exe or schedulable setup.exe
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 05:47:19 -0800 (PST)
--- Jeff <nobody@example.com> wrote:
> Love the new Cygwin installer, particularly it capability of updating
> portions of an installation that are creeping out of date. Would
> love it more if I could schedule update to run monthly/weekly/daily
> to be able to make sure that I'm always up to date. This would be
> comparible to the IE or Netscape Autoupdate feature,
> or the automatic upgrade features found in most virus checking
> software.
>
> If you could build an update program that runs from the commandline,
> that would be sufficient. I could easily run the program via a Windows
> scheduler if it had a command line only interface. It would be even
> friendlier if a scheduler was built into the tool, or if the tool was
> Windows Scheduler-aware.
>
It would be cool if you did provide such a feature. The ball is now yours.
Don't pass it back, the goal will never be scored if you do.
Cheers,
=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
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