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Re: download script


--- Jason Tishler <Jason.Tishler@dothill.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:08:15PM -0230, Neil Zanella wrote:
> > Download latest/byacc/byacc.tar.gz failed
> 
> I also had a similar experience as Neil's when I used the "Install from
> Internet" option.  Using setup 2.19, I installed Cygwin on a Windows
> 98 machine for the first time.  The installation appeared to succeed
> without any problems.  But, when I executed commands like cat, I got a
> "command not found" error message from bash.
> 
> When I checked my setup.log, I discovered that about 5 packages failed
> to download.  When I re-ran setup, it downloaded the missing packages
> successfully this time.
> 
> Note that I am installing from a local mirror on our Intranet, so I
> don't think that the download really failed.  Maybe setup thinks that
> the download "failed" when it actually succeeded?
> 

I have two things to say:

Use the source, Luke (TM).
Patches gratefully considered (TM).

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com

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