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From: "Harig, Mark A." <maharig@idirect.net>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: Setup.exe and accessability
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:34:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BADF3C947A1BD54FBA75C70C241B0B9E762FCE@ex02.idirect.net> (raw)

both are needed (of course).  a detailed command-line
interface would allow for the creation of automated
tests for this most-visible of Cygwin programs.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu]
> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 12:04 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Setup.exe and accessability
> 
> 
> On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 02:05:14PM +0200, Lars Bj?rndal wrote:
> > >As far I can see, you can not select individual packages within
> > >setup.exe without using the mouse. I'm blind, and 
> therefore I can not
> > >install cygwin without assistance from a sighted person. Is it
> > >possible that this will be changed in the next version? Or 
> is there a
> > >posibility that I have not seen?
> >
> > The only thing that I can think of that could possibly be of use is
> > the oft-mentioned command line options for setup.exe.  
> Various people
> > have mentioned that they were going to work on this but I've never
> > seen anyone (besides Robert of course) follow through on 
> fully realizing
> > this to the point where you can install packages from the 
> command line.
> 
> Adding keyboard shortcuts to the package selection screen 
> (i.e., <Tab>bing
> to the Action column and the checkboxes) would do it as well, 
> I suppose.
> "Did I phrase that sufficiently neutrally to avoid being 
> asked to submit a
> patch?" (C) R. Schulz.
> 	Igor
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> Science, Oct'02, p.51
> 
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             reply	other threads:[~2002-10-25 16:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-25  9:34 Harig, Mark A. [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-27 18:40 amores perros
2002-10-25 15:05 lhall
2002-10-25 11:15 lhall
2002-10-25 11:19 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2002-10-25  6:24 Lars Bjørndal
2002-10-25  8:50 ` Christopher Faylor
2002-10-25  9:33   ` Igor Pechtchanski
2002-10-25 11:45     ` Christopher Faylor
2002-10-26 14:10 ` Gary R. Van Sickle

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