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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT syncretize DOT net>
To: "'Huijing Zhou'" <hj AT N DOT O DOT S DOT P DOT A DOT M DOT cip DOT wiwi DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de>,
   <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Setup: more detail than just "Download incomplete"?
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 09:04:02 +1000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of Huijing Zhou
> Sent: Monday, 10 June 2002 5:29 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Setup: more detail than just "Download incomplete"?
> 
> 
> I have been told "Download incomplete" by the cygwin setup 
> programme all 
> the time, both the "stable" and the snapshot one. So I am 
> wondering why 
> it is not possible to just say what packages has not been completed?

Because no one has put the time in to build a list of the specific
failures.
 
> This "Download incomplete" message kinds of remind me of 
> Microsoft's "An 
> error has occured" or "An important message has been reported by the 
> server" or something like that.

With one BIG difference. You can alter setup.exe if you don't like the
behaviour, just try that with Microsoft's products. 

Rob


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