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To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: new setup.exe -- why no uninstall?
In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 23 Aug 2000 18:47:33 EDT.
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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 16:00:49 -0700
From: Kevin Layer <layer AT franz DOT com>

>> 
>> Because we haven't gotten to that part yet.  

That's a very reasonable, acceptable answer.  I really like the new
installation style.

>> Read setup's README in
>> the source CVS - it's there.

Oops.  Missed that.

>> 
>> > and what is the recommended way to uninstall, just to delete the
>> > c:\cygwin?  Is there much (anything?) else the installation does?
>> > What about the registry?
>> 
>> The installation creates some icons on the desktop and start menu, and
>> there's a "*\Software\Cygnus Solutions" registry tree you can delete,
>> and everything else is either in the cygwin install area or in the
>> temp directory that setup put the .tar.gz files in.

That's what I guessed, which means I'm not concerned about it
anymore.  Thanks for answering the questions.

- Kevin

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