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On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 01:51:57PM -0700, Karl M wrote:
>I find it useful as well...it was just a little startling the first time
>it expanded to full screen.

Has anyone noticed that setup.exe now prints to the screen as well
as displaying dialog boxes?  So, in theory you can do this:

setup --help

and see something useful.

If that doesn't work (and it may not on older versions of Windows) then
"setup --help | less" should still work.

cgf

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