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Re: Question on the new behavior of setup.exe
- From: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov at syntrex dot com>
- To: "Doug Wyatt" <dwyatt at sunflower dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 14:35:56 +0200
- Subject: Re: Question on the new behavior of setup.exe
- Organization: Syntrex, Inc.
- References: <3CABDB7C.22026.30E7C57C@localhost>
- Reply-to: Pavel Tsekov <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Hello Doug,
Thursday, April 04, 2002, 12:50:04 PM, you wrote:
DW> Hi,
DW> Back on 25Mar2002, Robert Collins replied to a posting which mentioned
DW> an oddly named subdir in a local hosts download dir. Earlier today, I tried
DW> to dowload the latest updates to a local dir with the newest setup.exe,
DW> running from a W2k PC and got errors about not being able to find a subdir
DW> with a long name containing what looked like printf format sequences.
For each mirror you download from, a directory is created with the url
of the mirror encoded according to rfc 1738's rules. This is done to
allow fetching from multiple mirrors.
DW> I tried several http and ftp sources for the download, but failed every time.
This is interesting - setup.log.* would be useful to debug the
problem.
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