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Subject: Re: Still having problems installing on WinNT 4.0
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On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 08:41:34PM -0800, Jerry DeLisle wrote:
>On 12/28/2009 08:18 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 08:05:10PM -0800, Jerry DeLisle wrote:
>>> On a separate machine from my previous install problem, setup.exe runs but I get
>>> this warning:
>>>
>>> "The current ini file is from a newer version of setup.exe.  If you have any
>>> trouble installing, please download a fresh .... "
>>>
>>> I have scanned the disks for any ini I can find and there are none remotely
>>> related to cygwin.  I have also tried downloading setup.exe several times.
>>>
>>> Continuing on I get:
>>>
>>> ... setup.bz2 line 2567: syntax error, unexpected STRING
>>>
>>> Help is much appreciated.
>>
>> You are *not* downloading the latest version of setup.exe which is the
>> version that you'll see in setup.ini - 2.674 .
>>
>> Perhaps some helpful proxy is caching the setup.exe download.
>>
>I think you are right.
>
>I have a way to wget off of a different provider.  I will try that and
>report back

I'm not sure what reporting back will accomplish.  There really is not a
version mismatch on cygwin.com.  There can't be since the version of
setup in setup.ini comes from the setup.exe that you download from
there.

Any problem is on your end.

cgf

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