setup.exe: Determine Geographically closest mirror programmatically

[Ralph Hempel]

Dr. Christoph Gille wrote:
>> Closest mirror?  I'm not sure what you mean by this.  'setup.exe' does not
>> require this as a setting.  Actually, there is no such concept.  You need to specify
>> a mirror to work with but you can do that with '-s'.
> 
> With each superfluous click I lose a user, so it would be best if setup.exe would be run within http://3d-alignment.eu/  without
> user interaction.

Or you could modify the attached Windows batch file (I've made it
a TXT file so it passes through most filters) and change the
mirror name to one that's closer.

You might have to make one batch file per country :-)

Ralph
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