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Message-ID: <068c01c18a80$d6156d60$0200a8c0@lifelesswks>
From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Bruce Dobrin" <dobrin AT imageworks DOT com>,
   "Matthew Cary" <cary AT cs DOT washington DOT edu>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygwin and XP
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 11:37:28 +1100
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Bruce, you might like to try one of the recent setup snapshots. We're
approaching feature freeze for a new release, and all feedback is
useful.

Rob
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Dobrin" <dobrin AT imageworks DOT com>
To: "Matthew Cary" <cary AT cs DOT washington DOT edu>; <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 8:10 AM
Subject: Re: cygwin and XP


> I don't have a solution,  but I have seen this before on both Win2k
and NT4.
> I was installing onto  machines that were on wireless networks and I
> attributed it to dropping connections/ slow net interface.  It seemed
to
> download a few things and then bug out with the error you mentioned.
I
> later burned our local cygwin install build to a CD and it worked
fine,
> this probably isn't a good solution,  but perhaps it will help
illuminate
> the problem.
>
> (PS,  the new "setup" drives me nuts too,  especially 'cause it often
seems
> to punt cygncurses5.dll unless you specifically tell it to re-install)
>
...


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