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Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
 >> Ideally it would be a .msi that installs just the exe and the readme
 >> into %PROGRAMFILES%\MinTTY and puts a shortcut to the exe directly
 >> into Start Menu\Programs.
 >
 > Please don't make this the only way to install this.  Some of us (e.g.,
 > yours truly) do not have permissions that allow installation into
 > %PROGRAMFILES%.

Rest assured that I certainly wouldn't want to make an installer the 
only option (and any installer ought to offer a choice of installation 
directory anyway). But as you say, this is now a moot question as Gary 
has taken the option off the table and Yaakov has started work on a 
Cygwin package.

Andy


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