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From: Grant Edwards <grante AT visi DOT com>
Subject:  Re: How to make setup.exe default to local-install?
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:17:14 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2009-01-13, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> On 01/12/2009, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> It looks like a batch file would work, but it pops up a
>> "nuisance" console window.  [Question: does "local directory"
>> refer to the directory where setup.exe is located or to the
>> current working directory?]
>
> It refers to the local directory containing all the packages in the
> directory structure you get when you download packages.

We haven't downloaded packages yet.  All we've done is start up
setup.exe and we're sitting looking at the first screen.

> So it is neither the directory where 'setup.exe' is located
> not the current working directory.

If you believe the setup.exe source code, it is the currrent
working directory.  The three choices are:

 IDC_SOURCE_DOWNLOAD
 IDC_SOURCE_NETINST
 IDC_SOURCE_CWD 

AFAICT, CWD stands for "current working directory".

-- 
Grant Edwards                   grante             Yow! I want another
                                  at               RE-WRITE on my CEASAR
                               visi.com            SALAD!!


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