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From:	"Polley Christopher W" <PolleyChristopherW AT JohnDeere DOT com>
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Subject:	RE: Alternate Cygwin download methods (was Re: NO huge
	packages, please!)
Date:	Fri, 8 Nov 2002 08:58:58 -0600
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>From: Max Bowsher [mailto:maxb AT ukf DOT net]
>I thought I might as well mention my download method:
>I wrote a little script to get a setup.ini file from a mirror, 
>and then use
>Michael Chase's clean_setup.pl to make a list of URLs to get, 
>and pass that
>to wget. I then invoke clean_setup.pl again, which tidys the 
>files away into
>their correct location in the directory tree.
>The great advantage is:- You can mirror only [curr] files, and 
>clean_setup
>can delete/move files as the become [prev]. Plus, you can 
>exclude packages
>by globbing on the package name.
>

Sounds useful. :-)  Care to share it?

Warm Regards,
Chris


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