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Re: Setup version in setup.ini
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:
>
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 12:50:03PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>>>> Shouldn't setup.ini be updated to reflect the new setup version
available?
>>>> See <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-04/msg00813.html>.
>>>
>>> It's supposed to be automatic. Apparently someone removed the version
>>> marker strings in setup.exe that upset relies on for decoding the
>>> version. I think this happens in nearly every setup release.
>>
>> I suspect the markers are intact, but masked by the upx compression.
>> Max.
>
> This is puzzling. There is an option in upx that disables compression for
> resources ("--compress-resouces=0"). Using it does add about 11k to the
> size of the executable. However, even with that option, "strings
> setup.exe" doesn't show any of the resources... Am I understanding the
> intent of the option correctly? If not, what am I missing?
The resources are stored in Unicode. Try strings -el.
But the version marker isn't a resource anyway.
Max.