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Re: what's the problem of my cygwin installation?


On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 03:08:59PM +0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>On 05/02/2010 11:58, G.W. Haywood wrote:
>> On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 Larry Hall wrote:
>>> Make sure you use the 'setup.exe' from cygwin.com.
>
>> It's long seemed to me that there's a case for changing the name of this
>> file.  On the average Windows box it is not unusual to see several files
>> called 'setup.exe' descended from entirely unrelated products.  
>
>  The Cygwin icon is a bit of a dead giveaway.

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-08/msg00280.html

And, how, exactly, would changing the name of setup.exe to something
else cause a DECREASE in traffic?  It seems like the opposite would
be true.  We'd have to set up a new "cygwin-what-happened-to-setup.exe@cygwin.com"
list.

cgf

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