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From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Old versions of setup.exe
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:31:10 -0000
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Peter A. Castro wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
> 
>> Peter A. Castro wrote:
>> 
>>> Unfortunately, the Cygwin Time Machine hasn't been archiving setup.exe
>>> (at least not consistently).  The top of /pub/cygwin/ always has the
>>> latest setup.exe (and setup.ini), but the Time Machine hasn't been
>>> archiving it because there's no automatic way to extract the version
>>> number from it.
>> 
>>  Well, ...
>> 
>> dk AT espanola /tmp> strings setup.exe | grep setup-version | cut -d ' ' -f
>> 3 
>> 2.521
>> dk AT espanola /tmp>
> 
> Hmmm... that doesn't seem to work for me on linux.... :(
> And, it doesn't work for me on Cygwin either?!
> This is what I get:
> 
> % strings -a w:/webserver/ftp/pub/cygwin/setup.exe | grep -i setup
>       name="RedHat.Cygwin.Setup"
> 
> This is the latest setup.exe from the cygwin website too.  I'm at a loss
> as to why it works for you and not me.


   ;)  Try un-UPXing it first!


    cheers,
      DaveK
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