Re: How to make setup.exe default to local-install?

[Grant Edwards <grante at visi dot com>]

On 2009-01-13, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.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.
> So it is neither the directory where 'setup.exe' is located
> not the current working directory.

If it's neither the current working directory nor the directory
where setup.exe is located, then how does setup.exe know where
to find it?

-- 
Grant


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