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Subject: Re: scp and ssh 'cat' stalls at 64k bytes
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From: Dan Harkless via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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On 6/23/2023 10:35 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2023-06-23 20:19, Dan Harkless via Cygwin wrote:
> > Before you resort to trawling through source, did you try a fresh Cygwin install 
> > (either to a different directory, or after temporarily moving your current 
> > tree)?  Sometimes, e.g. if you use the same "packages" directory between two 
> > different versions of Windows, I've found that Cygwin can get screwed up in 
> > strange ways.
>
> The -l|--local-package-dir DIR Local package directory just saves the downloaded
> tar file in case you want to do a reinstallation.
> I would expect trying to share the same -R|--root DIR Root installation
> directory between different systems, when you can really only install on one,
> and each host system requires specific unique keys to be generated, could give
> you questionable setups.

No, I'm not talking about sharing the same install tree between major 
versions of Windows, just the downloaded "packages" directory.  I 
realize it's just supposed to be a download cache, but I promise I've 
had mysterious failures that were only resolved by using a separate 
packages dir for each multi-boot OS.  It's possible this only occurred 
in the past due to setup[...].exe bugs which have since been fixed, but 
Chris' mysterious ssh issue (and his mention of upgrading from a much 
older Cygwin version, and using both Windows 10 and Windows 11) reminded 
me of the strange things I used to sometimes experience before I stopped 
sharing the packages directory across OSes.

--
Dan Harkless
http://harkless.org/dan/


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