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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:30:12 -0800
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Problem with setup
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Luke Kendall wrote:

> > > I can confirm this.  We took a snapshot of October 26th
> > > (setup-timestamp: 1098732614), and in that version of setup,
> >
> > That number you quoted identifies the version of the setup.ini datafile, not
> > the setup.exe program.
> 
> Sorry, how's this?
> $  bunzip2 -c setup.bz2 | head -5
> # This file is automatically generated.  If you edit it, your
> # edits will be discarded next time the file is generated.
> # See http://cygwin.com/setup.html for details.
> #
> setup-timestamp: 1098732614

That's still just telling you the timestamp when setup.ini was created. 
It has no bearing on the version of setup.exe, which is displayed on the
first panel, e.g. "Setup.exe version 2.431".

Brian

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