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 sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 14:04:24 -0500 Message-Id: <200102021904.OAA25897@envy.delorie.com> X-Authentication-Warning: envy.delorie.com: dj set sender to dj AT envy DOT delorie DOT com using -f From: DJ Delorie To: charles AT pentek DOT com CC: cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com In-reply-to: <20010202134103.C21905@pentek.com> (message from Charles Krug on Fri, 2 Feb 2001 13:41:03 -0500) Subject: Re: Setup oddity References: <20010202134103 DOT C21905 AT pentek DOT com> > Not sure whether this is a bug or a feature. Me neither. Probably yet another MS bug we'll have to work around. > Is it possible to detect the presence of an active internet connection > so that setup doesn't dial up when it doesn't need to? Anything's possible with computers, but I don't know how to do it, and it's, um, "easy enough" for you to just select the right option (I *hope* you know when your modem is connected and when it isn't ;) More likely, the IE5 (nio-ie5.cc) code needs to be a little smarter about reusing an existing connection, rather than switching the whole setup program over to direct mode (direct doesn't allow proxies, for example). If you want to investigate doing this, please do. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple