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Date:	Thu, 01 Mar 2001 08:47:28 -0700
From:	"Mark Scoville" <mark AT campuspipeline DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Cygwin online availabilty

Corinna wrote:
> Why? What's the advantage of full.exe? It's so big that a broken
> conection is way more annoying than with many smaller packages
> and it's much more complicated to maintain.
>
> We want to be able to substitute single packages when they have
> an error or a new version is available.
>
> A full.exe would have to be build again each time or it wouldn't
> contain the latest packages.

Why not? It is convenient, and the install leaves one more confident
that the install is complete, and some small detail was not forgotten.

Yes, I would like to find full.exe myself (18.2 I think is the latest?).
Could you let me know where that is.

Thanks Corinna!
Mark.



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