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Subject: Re: setup.exe via proxy?
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From: John S Cooper <John DOT Cooper AT eu DOT citrix DOT com>
Date: 27 Apr 2000 17:38:29 +0100
In-Reply-To: Chris Faylor's message of "Thu, 27 Apr 2000 12:01:05 -0400"
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Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> writes:

 > On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 04:03:09PM +0100, John S Cooper wrote:
 > >Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> writes:
 > >
 > > > >It starts up and displays a list a list of mirror sites.  When I select
 > > > >one, it just waits for a while and then gives these odd errors:
 > > > >
 > > > >    Select an option from 5-28 or [repeat]: 25
 > > > >    Connecting to ftp site...Done.
 > > > >    Unable to open "D:\DOCUME~1\JCooper\LOCALS~1\Temp\su37" for output: No such file
 > > > >     or directory
 > > > 
 > > > Does the d:\docume~1\jcooper\locals~1\temp directory actually exist?
 > > > If so, are there any files in the directory that look similar to su*?
 > >
 > >Yes to both questions:
 > >
 > >,----
 > >| $ ls d:/Documents\ and\ Settings/JCooper/Local\ Settings/Temp/
 > >| Acr25.tmp   su14        su2         su25        su30        su4
 > >| JETE3B.tmp  su15        su20        su26        su31        su5
 > >| su10        su16        su21        su27        su32        su6
 > >| su11        su17        su22        su28        su33        su7
 > >| su12        su18        su23        su29        su34        su8
 > >| su13        su19        su24        su3         su35        su9
 > >`----
 > >
 > >So it seems to get part way there, but then gives "Unable to open ..." messages
 > >for su36 and later.  Eventually it gives up with:
 > 
 > Ok.  This looks like a handle leak.  You're probably doing this on
 > Windows 9x and have something like "FILES=40" in your config.sys, right?

No, I'm using Win2K.

 > I've uploaded setup 1.33 to cygwin/latest.  It tries to be more diligent
 > about closing everything.  It also creates the temporary files in the same
 > directory as setup.exe.

It fails in exactly the same way:

,----
| Select an option from 5-28 or [repeat]: 25
| Connecting to ftp site...Done.
| Unable to open "h:\x\su37" for output: No such file or directory
| 
| Unable to open "h:\x\su38" for output: No such file or directory
| ...
| ...
| Unable to open "h:\x\su72" for output: No such file or directory
| 
| Downloading: ash.tar.gz...Unable to open "ash.tar.gz" for output: No such file
| or directory
| 
| Download failed.
| Download failed (Abort, Retry, Fail)? [R]
`----

 > Please try the new version of setup and, if it fails, send a directory
 > listing of the directory where setup.exe is located to
 > cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com

OK, here's the listing

,----
| $ type ls
| ls is an alias for ls -FCU
| ls is h:/bin/ls
| $ ls h:/x
| cygpath.exe*  su13	    su22	  su30		su7
| cygwin1.dll   su14	    su23	  su31		su73
| gzip.exe*     su15	    su24	  su32		su8
| mount.exe*    su16	    su25	  su33		su9
| setup.exe*    su17	    su26	  su34		tar.exe*
| setup.log     su18	    su27	  su35		umount.exe*
| su10	      su19	    su28	  su4
| su11	      su20	    su29	  su5
| su12	      su21	    su3		  su6
| $ 
`----

    --- John


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