Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <20000524115432.13840.qmail@web120.yahoomail.com> Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 04:54:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Subject: Re: problems and suggestions... To: Tim Horton , cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Tim Horton wrote: -8<- > > 2. the setup program appears to scan subdirectories for .tar.gz files > > I had put the old versions in a subdirectly called "old", and > setup installed these as though they were in the current directory > without warning. I only noticed this the second time it happened. > Maybe you should have read the instruction manual. It clearly says, create an empty directory, place setup.exe there, change your working directory to that directory and excute setup. Cheers, ===== --- Earnie Boyd: __Cygwin: POSIX on Windows__ Cygwin Newbies: __Minimalist GNU for Windows__ Mingw32 List: Mingw Home: __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com