Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Brandon J. Van Every" Subject: Re: Cygwin installing too much stuff Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 10:34:38 -0700 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <6709.67302653498$1116400452@news.gmane.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) In-Reply-To: <6709.67302653498$1116400452@news.gmane.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >Brandon J. Van Every wrote: >> >>It is irritating because I'm on a dialup, and I just wanted >>to grab the small "zip" tool and keep going with my real >>work. Instead I'm waiting waiting waiting waiting on piles >>of downloads that I'm too lazy to go in and figure out. > > Well... since you're waiting anyway, couldn't you use that otherwise-wated > time to "go in and figure [it] out"? When multitasking I prioritize throughput over latency. I went and scrubbed steps for a few hours to keep the landlord happy. All for a 86K download: zip is tiny! It just has the liability of being last in the alphabet. > In this case, you lucked out, because > I'm going to do it for you! See there's a method in my madness. :-) It seems that I could solve these sorts of problems with the "partial" and "curr" views. I did indeed have a partial TeTex download pending, and I actually did need it for what I was compiling. I had just forgotten that I needed it, as I was interrupted in my work last week. Thanks for all the help everyone. -- Cheers, www.indiegamedesign.com Brandon Van Every Seattle, WA When no one else sells courage, supply and demand take hold. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/