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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 03:23:37 -0800
From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna AT efn DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Installing cygwin by manually copying c:\cygwin to another machine
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On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 12:23:00PM +0200, Adrian Maier wrote:
> On 1/16/06, Chris Taylor <chris AT equate DOT dyndns DOT org> wrote:
> > Adrian Maier wrote:
> > > On 1/16/06, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna AT efn DOT org> wrote:
> > >
> > >>I think the key word there is "does not yet *support*".  Run setup
> > >>--help from a command prompt, and setup will output a list of its
> > >>command line options into setup.log.full.  Play with running it using
> > >>them on a previously prepared local download directory, with
> > >>non-default packages included either by changing setup.ini to add
> > >>"Base" to their category or adding a dummy mirror directory with a
> > >>setup.ini having a dummy package that has category Base and requires
> > >>the other packages you want.
> > >
> > >
> > > I see: this functionality is in development and therefore is well hidden
> > > for the moment.   It's a shame that it's not clearly documented .
> > >
> > >
> > > setup --help     displays  nothing for me
> > > I suspect this is a cmd.exe or win2000   - related problem ,
> > > because i have seen the same happening with other programs as well
> > > (namely qemu).
> > >
> > >
> > > Adrian Maier
> > >
> >
> > Please re-read what Yitzchak said - it outputs the list of options into
> > setup.log.full
> >
> > Just for emphasis, I'll say that again: *setup.log.full*
> > Open that for the options.
> 
> Uh, you are right. Sorry guys,  I haven't read the entire phrase written by
> Yitzchak ...  my fault.
> It looks like I am too used to the idea of programs writing their messages
> to stdin/stdout .

It certainly qualifies as "quaint" behavior.

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