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Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 23:03:52 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Bruce Dobrin <dobrin AT imageworks DOT com>
CC: Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Next version of setup.exe
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Bruce Dobrin wrote:

> 1:  got message "cannot open (null) for reading....." message a couple of
> times when installing from a local (network) directory onto a new XP
> machine,  followed by a failiar message indicating more info in
> setup.log.full.  Nothing out of the ordinary noted in that file.


I've seen that message when my local dir was out of sync with the 
setup.ini IN the local dir.  e.g. /my/local/setup.ini says that 
contrib/cygutils/cygutils-0.9.9-1.tar.bz2 exists, but the file is not 
ACTUALLY in /my/local/contrib/cygutils/.

 
--Chuck



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