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From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 23:39:14 -0400
To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: uninstalling cygwin
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In-Reply-To: <392DF105.ED7A65A@sympatico.ca>; from 80stclair@sympatico.ca on Thu, May 25, 2000 at 11:35:33PM -0400

On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 11:35:33PM -0400, B&T wrote:
>On an NT system, after a recent successful setup (install), cygwin
>did not show up under "add/remove" programs. The faq says:
>     If you should ever want to uninstall the tools, you may do so
>     via the "Add/Remove Programs" control panel. 
>It appears the FAQ is out of date (mentions a few B20-isms).

Are you referring to the FAQ which says "Only partially updated for
the latest net release" at the top of the page?

>While running the uninst.bat script wiped out most of the files,
>it did not wipe out the registry, and setup refused to install
>anything, saying it was all up to date.

As we have said many times, setup.exe is a work in progress.  The
uninstall part of setup is very weak.

Setup should install everything as long as you don't use the "-u"
option.  If this is not the case, then you've uncovered a bug.

cgf

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