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On 4/28/2012 8:51 PM, Nick Lowe wrote:
> "I installed 2.772 on my systems as soon as it was available and I
> don't see any such issue using my local mirror.  Did you try another
> mirror?"
>
> Quite, but the idea of corruption was implicit in that question. A
> digital signature would rule that out.

<snip>

Not in this case, no.  You inferred the wrong thing from the quote
above.  Corinna's suggestion was that the mirror containing the packages
was malformed in some way, not that that 'setup.exe' itself was
somehow corrupted.

> What's with the hostility? It's really bad etiquette... ;)

That would be <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#WJM>.  It makes life more
livable. :-)


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Larry

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 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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