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Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 16:04:24 -0400
From: Andrew MacGinitie <amacginitie AT earthlink DOT net>
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Subject: not a bug; just a suggestion
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I have access to an internet connection on a different 
machine than where I want to install Cygwin; I do not have 
access on that target machine.  It seems to me that one of 
your web pages (http://cygwin.com/download.html) calls me a 
masochist because of that.  I suggest you may want to 
replace that aspersion with simple instructions that would 
facilitate:
1. get setup.exe off the web.
2. get the files needed by setup.exe in a zip, gz, or tar 
file off the web
3. sneakernet (CDRW, anyone?) to my other system, place the 
files (& maybe untar, unzip, etc.)
4. run setup, & point to the local files

That's not really masochism, I claim. And how much trouble 
would it be, really, to use a program like WinZip to package 
the necessary files, thereby solving the chicken/egg problem 
for anyone who has WinZip (most Windoze users, I think)? 
Surely there are equivalent free software solutions as well, 
if it's a question of philosophy (lha comes to mind).

Anyway, just a suggestion.  But maybe you'd rather not have 
any atypical users (or just users like me).

Regards,
Andrew



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