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Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:05:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: aschwarz1309 AT att DOT net
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Setup Failure
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Ugh, top posting...  Reformatted.

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, aschwarz1309 wrote:

>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT XX DOT XXX DOT XXX>

<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Thanks.

> > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, aschwarz1309 wrote:
> >
> > > The following error message was displayed in a pop-up window when I
> > > tried to execute setup.
> > >
> > >   Fatal Error: Uncaught Exception
> > >   Thread: install
> > >   Type: St16invalid_argumet
> > >   Message: URL Scheme not registered!
> > >
> > > I am using the setup.exe and setup.ini files downloaded on Jan 17.
> > > The steps executed to display this message were:
> > > 1: I copied the setup files from one computer to another (Intel to AMD
> > > machines).
> > > 2: I copied the downloaded Cygwin files.
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > Any idea how to fix the problem?
> >
> > Do you Google:
> > <http://google.com/search?q=%22URL+Scheme+not+registered%22+cygwin>?  The
> > first match is a thread that provides a solution.
> > 	Igor
>
> I download in the following steps:
> [snip]
> After the work installation, I copied Setup.exe and Setup.ini and the
> folder. I brought the files home, copied the files to my home computer
> and attempted to do a local install. The install failed with the
> indicated message(s), see below.

It's unclear whether you're doing it the wrong way or not.  When you say
"copied setup.exe and setup.ini", do you mean that you copied them to the
same directory?  That would make setup crash in the way you described (see
the above Google link).

> In this case, I didn't think that 'cygcheck -c' or other information
                                              ^^
-svr

> would be an aid.
> PS: I hope that this isn't HTML.

It isn't... :-)
HTH,
	Igor
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