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To: Vinod Gupta <vinod AT Princeton DOT EDU>
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On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Vinod Gupta wrote:

> On 2006-10-04 11:55, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Vinod Gupta wrote:
> >
> > > >     All this pain, just because some one did not include
> > > >     "--InstallAll" option to setup.exe??
> > > >
> > > > As the saying goes, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>.  Of course, you
> > > > can always look to see if any of your issues with 'setup.exe' are
> > > > addressed by a snapshot <http://cygwin.com/setup/snapshots/>.
> > > >
> > > Thanks Lary.
> > > When I ran the latest "setup-2.551.exe --help" I got no output at all.
> >
> > Check the log file.
> > 	Igor
>
> And where that log is supposed to be? Surely not /var/log/setup.log
> because cygwin is not yet installed.

It's setup.log in the directory you ran setup from.

> Moreover, why should the output of "setup-2.551.exe --help" be sent to
> any log file?

Read the cygwin-apps archives -- there's a long discussion of that exact
issue.  In a word, it's because setup cannot reliably write to the
console without other adverse effects.
	Igor
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