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Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 04:54:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
Subject: Re: problems and suggestions...
To: Tim Horton <tjhorton AT hotmail DOT com>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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--- Tim Horton <tjhorton AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:
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> 
> 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,



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   Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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