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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 14:35:56 +0200
From: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com>
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To: "Doug Wyatt" <dwyatt AT sunflower DOT com>
CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Question on the new behavior of setup.exe
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Hello Doug,

Thursday, April 04, 2002, 12:50:04 PM, you wrote:

DW> Hi,

DW> Back on 25Mar2002, Robert Collins replied to a posting which mentioned
DW> an oddly named subdir in a local hosts download dir.  Earlier today, I tried
DW> to dowload the latest updates to a local dir with the newest setup.exe,
DW> running from a W2k PC and got errors about not being able to find a subdir
DW> with a long name containing what looked like printf format sequences.

For each mirror you download from, a directory is created with the url
of the mirror encoded according to rfc 1738's rules. This is done to
allow fetching from multiple mirrors.

DW> I tried several http and ftp sources for the download, but failed every time.

This is interesting - setup.log.* would be useful to debug the
problem.


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