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Date:	Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:10:07 -0500
From:	Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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To:	Doug Kaufman <dkaufman AT rahul DOT net>
CC:	Lynx Developer News Group <lynx-dev AT sig DOT net>,
	Cygwin News Group <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject:	Re: lynx-dev Lynx tries to use a weird "cp" copy program whendownloading
	files.
References:	<Pine DOT BSF DOT 4 DOT 21 DOT 0102200718430 DOT 45579-100000 AT yellow DOT rahul DOT net>

Doug Kaufman wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Malcolm Boekhoff wrote:
> 
> >  I can't get lynx to download anything using the default "save to
> > disk" option.
> > ...
> > If I type "lynx http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe" and
> > then use the default "save to disk" option, the file appears to get
> > downloaded, but then Lynx tries to use a weird "cp" copy program to
> > copy the temporary file to "setup.exe". The copy program it is trying
> > to spawn appears to be:
> >
> >   /cygnus/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/bin/cp
> 
> This appears to be an old version of lynx, copiled with absolute
> paths for utilities (an option when compiling). There are
> two simple fixes. The easiest is to create the directory
> "/cygnus/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/bin", then "ln /bin/cp cp". The other is to
> download a non-cywin build of a recent Win32 lynx. Links to several of
> these are on my web site "http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/index.html".

Please note:  It is advised to halt all Cygwin processes before updating
Cygwin.  You will certainly run into problems with having Cygwin
processes executing while trying to update them.

Earnie.

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