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On 03/02/2010 08:16, Morten Kjærulff wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried downloading http://www.cygwin.com//setup.exe (note 2 //), and
> got 2.680. http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe is still 2.674 for me.

  You found a clever way to trick the caching proxy that's messing things up
for you!

  Another thing that often works is to use a public open-proxy server to
redirect the request for you; it only takes seconds to google a few up.

    cheers,
      DaveK


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