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Re: A change to startxwin.bat...


Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> wrote in
<Pine.GSO.4.44.0305142349380.29966-100000@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
in gmane.os.cygwin.xfree on Wed, 14 May 2003 23:53:08 -0400 (EDT):

> If you intend to do it, *please* don't do this in a postinstall script!
> Postinstall scripts have no way of communicating with the user, and I, for
> one, get annoyed when software messes up my desktop/start menu *without
> asking me*.  If you want to provide such functionality, please include a
> config script that will be run separately by the user.

Hear, hear! I'll second Igor's motion.


-- 
Sam Edge


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