Re: Misleading error message in setup

2003-09-18 Thread luke . kendall
On 18 Sep, Robert Collins wrote: > > E.g. we have a local mirror on our intranet: > > http://web/u/mirror/cygwin/ and the user added > > " http://web/u/mirror/cygwin/"; and got an error complaining about not > > being able to find the file /u/mirror/cygwin/setup.tar.bz2. > > Right, and

Re: Misleading error message in setup

2003-09-18 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 12:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here's a small oddity. If you make a mistake in cut and paste when > adding a new download site (easy to accidentally include an invisible > leading or trailing space, for example, in netscape), then instead of > complaining that the URL is w