[Q] About halting problems at installation of cygwin

[Igor Peshansky]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, toto<at>lge<dot>com wrote:

> [snip]
> But the progress bar didn't advance after that point, which shows
> /etc/postinstall/00ash.sh for 8 hours.

I couldn't help noticing the subject.  Doesn't this poster know that the
halting problem is undecidable[*]?  So we can't really help him/her.
Oops.
	Igor
[*] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem>
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