Setup - command line only

[Ralph Hempel]

Kevin and Nancy wrote:
> Ok, I take it back.  "setup.exe -q" will work on an SSH remote 
> connection.  It remains to be seen if it actually updates packages, but 
> a GUI setup display did not appear on the the local Windows display with 
> a remotely invoked "setup.exe -q".  Thus, I question if "setup.exe -q" 
> on a remote SSH session will actually update anything.  Cygnus for 
> Windows is "da bom" in my book.  You guys have been great in your 
> comments.  Usually postings like this for me results in virtual blank 
> stares.

There are more settings you can use to get finer grain control of
the operation of setup...

Here's the bach file I use to drive setup so that it can update and
install specific packages. It's a txt file, just rename it to bat
and it will run.

Ralph



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