Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-14 Thread andrew clarke
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 04:59:57PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > If you are a nontechnical cygwin user, then why would you be making > any determination of what is harmless or not harmless? I would think > that it would be the reverse -- people who really know what they're > doing (or think

Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-14 Thread andrew clarke
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:45:37PM +, John M. Adams wrote: > How do you get just 1 package via setup.exe? When you reach the Select Packages dialog of setup.exe, hit the View button (the tiny one on the upper-right...). In the table there is a column called "New" (I don't know why it's calle

Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-14 Thread andrew clarke
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 07:50:48AM +1100, andrew clarke wrote: > Section 2 of the FAQ might also put people off using Setup because it's > described as a "work-in-progress" and seemingly a bit of a moving target. Actually, just out of interest, will new Setup progra

Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-14 Thread andrew clarke
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 12:15:05PM -0800, Peter A. Castro wrote: > > I don't think people are actually reading that paragraph at all, though. I > > think that's part of the problem. > > As a preventative measure, how about adding some embedded tags into the > cygwin.com home or install pages so

Re: Why the rash of people bypassing setup.exe to install?

2003-02-14 Thread andrew clarke
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 01:26:15PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I tried an experiment recently where I turned on ftp access to the > cygwin download directory on sources.redhat.com. The result seemed > to be that people started downloading cygwin's package .tar.bz2 files > directly and (som

Re: missing cygprce.dll

2003-02-05 Thread andrew clarke
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 11:34:18PM -0500, bob davis wrote: > I just installed the latest cygwin 1.3.19-1 . > When I run grep I get a dialog with missing cygprce.dll > I run dumpbin on grep.exe and I can see the cygprce.dll import. > It looks like a regular expression library. I have searched the m