From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14100 invoked by alias); 30 Apr 2002 03:32:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 14078 invoked from network); 30 Apr 2002 03:32:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mtiwmhc24.worldnet.att.net) (204.127.131.49) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 30 Apr 2002 03:32:50 -0000 Received: from utq6e ([12.75.134.11]) by mtiwmhc24.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20020430033244.VAWC18857.mtiwmhc24.worldnet.att.net@utq6e> for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 03:32:44 +0000 From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" To: Subject: RE: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 01:58:00 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg01627.txt.bz2 > Robert Collins wrote in <016301c1ef7b$4d769f00$0200a8c0@lifelesswks> > in gmane.os.cygwin on Mon, 29 Apr 2002 22:42:18 +1000: > > > Actually, the current functionality wil do the trick, as long as you > > install what you have downloaded. > > Hmmm. I've just tried using "install from Internet" with bzip2, > sharutils, unzip and zip, on a machine that doesn't have them > installed and killing the connection after bzip2 has downloaded. > > When it says "download incomplete, try again" I say "No" and it > attempts to do the install. > > I'm then getting "Can't open (null) for reading" errors during the > attempted installation of sharutils (the sharutils sub-directory has > been created but is empty) and a "installation incomplete" message box > at the end but it /has/ installed bzip2. > > It's pretty ugly but it does seem to be working and if I reselect > bzip2 when I try again it isn't attempting to download it again so > yes, you could get there even on a slow link. (Not exactly good UI > design though!) ;-) > My ears are burning... ;-) -- Gary R. Van Sickle Brewer. Patriot. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/