setup reget
Brian Dessent
brian@dessent.net
Wed Jun 23 19:10:00 GMT 2004
Elvin Peterson wrote:
> The Cygwin setup program setup.exe does not seem to
> handle partial downloads of files. I have downloads
> interrupted in the middle of a large package like
> X11-fonts and the next time it starts from scratch.
> Is this behavior expected? Or is it just a bug in my
> install? Since almost all web and ftp servers support
> the REGET option shouldn't it be the default?
Try selecting "Use IE5 settings" instead of "Direct Connection". I'm
not sure it will matter but I think if you do it that way it will use
the IE methods instead of the built-in ones for downloading, which may
support resuming.
Brian
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