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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 16:53:30 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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Robert Collins wrote:


>>Note that if I remove setup.ini/log/full and run setup-new in "install
>>from internet" mode, the new setup does NOT recreate .ini/log/full and
>>I'm left with an .ini-less local dir (but it WILL download and parse
>>setup.ini from the internet, and download/install the chosen packages.
>>BUT, I have NO idea where it put them -- e.g. cygwin-1.3.8-1.tar.bz2
>>
> did
> 
>>NOT get saved into latest/cygwin/ even though it WAS successfully
>>
> installed.
> 
> Very strange. Did you get a new folder of the form http:%.... ?


Not that I could find.

> Is //polgara/private/software/windows/cygwin the path you enter in
> 'choose local dir' ?


Sortof.  I didn't type it in; it already "knew" somehow.  And it was in 
this form: '\\polgara\private\software\windows\cygwin' with backslashes, 
not forward slashes.  (Retyping it with forward slashes doesn't seem to 
change anything)

 
--chuck