cygwin and XP

[Robert Collins]

Bruce, you might like to try one of the recent setup snapshots. We're
approaching feature freeze for a new release, and all feedback is
useful.

Rob
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Dobrin" <dobrin@imageworks.com>
To: "Matthew Cary" <cary@cs.washington.edu>; <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 8:10 AM
Subject: Re: cygwin and XP


> I don't have a solution,  but I have seen this before on both Win2k
and NT4.
> I was installing onto  machines that were on wireless networks and I
> attributed it to dropping connections/ slow net interface.  It seemed
to
> download a few things and then bug out with the error you mentioned.
I
> later burned our local cygwin install build to a CD and it worked
fine,
> this probably isn't a good solution,  but perhaps it will help
illuminate
> the problem.
>
> (PS,  the new "setup" drives me nuts too,  especially 'cause it often
seems
> to punt cygncurses5.dll unless you specifically tell it to re-install)
>
...


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