Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install? From: Robert Collins To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-0gsIpdKkNlFdcZ7vJ0p7" Organization: Message-Id: <1045267099.21545.0.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 15 Feb 2003 10:58:19 +1100 --=-0gsIpdKkNlFdcZ7vJ0p7 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=20 GPG key available at: . --=-0gsIpdKkNlFdcZ7vJ0p7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+TYKbI5+kQ8LJcoIRAoAnAJ9dOk1L7uyMvYLSg+MkrqVKuuzxCQCdHnLm LQXzlUzFRi5vhdRWxQ+HwS8= =2D23 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-0gsIpdKkNlFdcZ7vJ0p7--