Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/07/08/16:15:23
I have access to an internet connection on a different
machine than where I want to install Cygwin; I do not have
access on that target machine. It seems to me that one of
your web pages (http://cygwin.com/download.html) calls me a
masochist because of that. I suggest you may want to
replace that aspersion with simple instructions that would
facilitate:
1. get setup.exe off the web.
2. get the files needed by setup.exe in a zip, gz, or tar
file off the web
3. sneakernet (CDRW, anyone?) to my other system, place the
files (& maybe untar, unzip, etc.)
4. run setup, & point to the local files
That's not really masochism, I claim. And how much trouble
would it be, really, to use a program like WinZip to package
the necessary files, thereby solving the chicken/egg problem
for anyone who has WinZip (most Windoze users, I think)?
Surely there are equivalent free software solutions as well,
if it's a question of philosophy (lha comes to mind).
Anyway, just a suggestion. But maybe you'd rather not have
any atypical users (or just users like me).
Regards,
Andrew
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