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Subject: RE: New setup uploaded - 2.218.2.8
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Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 09:18:05 +1000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cliff Hones [mailto:cliff AT aonix DOT co DOT uk] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 1:51 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: New setup uploaded - 2.218.2.8
> 
> 
> > Should this behavior of setup.exe's searching the directory 
> tree below 
> > the '/' mount point be documented, or should it be changed?
> 
> Changed, please - or at least setup should run some sort of 
> sanity check on the files it finds before trying to parse them.

There is a sanity check. It's called parsing the file. If the file is
called setup.ini, setup *will* try to parse it. It shouldn't parse
non-setup.ini files anymore (thanks Chris).

Rob

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