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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 10:17:27 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: non-interactive cygwin setup
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On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 01:01:07PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Rainer Hochreiter
>> Sent: 13 October 2004 08:32
>
>>is there a chance to install cygwin without gui dialog?
>>
>>my plan is to download all needed packages into a local directory and
>>then install the packages from that local directory by starting setup
>>from a command line without further user interaction.
>
>"setup.exe --help" gives this output, which for some bizarre reason it
>places in the setup.log file...

Probably because a GUI app can't communicate with the console.

cgf

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