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Subject: Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?
From: Robert Collins <rbcollins AT cygwin DOT com>
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Date: 15 Feb 2003 10:58:19 +1100

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On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 10:53, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On 15 Feb 2003, Robert Collins wrote:
>=20
> > On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 09:28, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > I was also thinking of creating a '/dev/tty' file in the archive whic=
h
> > > was just a real file containing the words "Hey! What are YOU DOING???=
" I
> > > think that would cause a tar extraction to print that message to the
> > > screen.  Don't know what it would do to setup.exe, though.
> >
> > probably create c:/cygwin/dev/tty...
> >
> > Rob
>=20
> FYI:

I meant, thats what setup.exe will do.

Rob

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