Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: RE: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 00:44:29 +1000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Robert Collins" To: "Alexei Lioubimov" , , "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g3QEpF701699 > -----Original Message----- > From: Alexei Lioubimov [mailto:e-complex AT mtu-net DOT ru] > Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 12:32 AM > To: Robert Collins; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com; Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) > Subject: Re: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet > > > Hello Robert, > Excuse me, but my English is not so good, and i didn't > understand one sentence from your answer: "...which is > something I'm seriously considering nuking." What does the > word "nuking" mean? Removing/destroying/eliminating. With a sense of anger/frustration. > What is the re-download functionality you are speaking about? When you select 'download from internet', if you select a package that is already cached, it deletes the cached copy and downloads the file again. As it doesn't keep corrupt files, I see no value in this - and it is the reason you see setup downloading stuff again and again. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/