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Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 13:13:50 +0200
From: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov AT syntrex DOT com>
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Subject: Re[3]: cygwin download incomplete - try again - loop?
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MB>> This is caused to the presence of a setup.ini in the root of the local package
MB>> directory and a string-handling bug in the rfc1738 code.


PT> Hmm... Maybe not. The latest setup source I have here (fetched from
PT> HEAD, not a branch)is 2.249 and the fix for that problem is there. And
PT> this was fetched some time ago - so I suppose all the latest and
PT> greatest setup.exe should have this fix also.

PT> I can't check right now though because I'm behind a firewall.

It appears that Max is right - without setup.ini in the local package
directory everything is fine, if you put one, setup.exe crashes :(

So, Ralf, if you remove the setup.ini from the local package
directory, setup.exe won't crash.


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