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RE: B20.1: NT - Cannot install from full-split directory
- To: 'Peter D Milliken' <peter.milliken@boeing.com>, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
- Subject: RE: B20.1: NT - Cannot install from full-split directory
- From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de>
- Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 00:26:37 +0200
Hi Peter,
are you sure NS downloaded in binary mode?
Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter D Milliken [SMTP:peter.milliken@boeing.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 1999 05:43
> To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: B20.1: NT - Cannot install from full-split directory
>
> [Heribert] [snip]
>
> I am operating through a firewall so I can only use Netscape to
> download
> files. Whenever I attempt to get full.exe (doesn't matter which mirror
> site) I get a time out. OK, so I downloaded everything in full-split
> (xaa, xab etc) and combined them using the installation instructions,
> but when I attempt to run it (from Explorer, from a DOS prompt, using
> "run" off the Start menu) I get an error message "This program cannot
> be
> run in DOS mode." Cound someone tell me what am I doing wrong? :-)
> (BTW,
> I have followed the copy instruction EXACTLY :-)).
>
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