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From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
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Subject: RE: Add setup.exe to the start menu
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:41:55 -0000
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Lennart Borgman wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:
> 
>>  Setup.exe doesn't actually install a copy of itself anywhere, but then
>> again we could always get it to create a shortcut to
>> http://cygwin.com/setup.exe, which would also have the advantage of
>> making sure people use the latest version all the time... 
>> 
> Doesn't it check this every time it is started?

  It checks if there's a more recent one, but doesn't do anything except
advise the user.  It might be more useful to just have a start-menu shortcut
that was always current automatically.



    cheers,
      DaveK
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