Blind people using setup.exe?

Brian Dessent brian@dessent.net
Mon Jun 27 17:27:00 GMT 2005


Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> >   Oh, that reminds me, --no-md5 is broken, I just noticed the other day
> > - gotta look at that too.

It's not broken, it doesn't exist any more.

> Hehe.  While we're at it, would you like to make setup print out a list of
> its command-line options, either in a message box or by doing an
> AllocConsole()?  I know the latter approach will pop up a console box if
> setup is started from a pty or via a shortcut (which will go away once the
> output is done), but it's better than nothing, and should work just fine
> if setup is started from a console shell.

I think having a spurious console appear and then disappear is not very
friendly.  I have considered having it do a messagebox with the --help
output, which I guess is better than what we have now.

Brian



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