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RE: Trusted Software Vendor
Christopher Faylor sent the following at Monday, June 11, 2012 10:56 AM
>On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 04:51:07PM +0200, Otto Meta wrote:
>>cgf wrote:
>>> Out of curiosity would downloading setup.exe using wget also work
>>>around the problem?
>>
>>Most likely. I don't think wget cares about protecting Windows users
>>from their own stupidity. If you use wget, you should know what you're
>>doing.
>>
>>How about you just give it a try?
>
>Er, I don't have this problem. I wasn't the one reporting it.
Since I reported it.
I used curl and didn't have the problem.
curl -R -o getcygwin.exe http://cygwin.com/setup.exe
Also, the x bit was set.
-rwxr-xr-x 1 705053 2012-04-29 02:27:44 getcygwin.exe
Two solutions! Is this a great list or what!
Thanks to all.
- Barry
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