Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Robert Praetorius" Organization: Ministry of Hobo Regalia, Gauntlet Division To: Ed Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 09:43:40 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: how do I know which system to choose when running setup? Reply-to: RPraetorius@AspenRes.Com CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3D996E4C.8500.1E00FC01@localhost> In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body > Also, if I am downloading files for later install, it seems to not > work if I start with one machine and then later download some stuff > from a different machine. The machine name is used in the directory > path of the files that I download. So if I get some from one machine > and some more from another, setup seems to get confused. regarding the subject line: 1) download http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/mirrors.lst (I used a browser - command line utilities for this abound, too: cURL, libWWW's comline, etc.) 2) perl -ne "print `ping $1` if m|://([^/]+).*North Am|" mirrors.lst (there are probably gawkish and shellish ways to do this, but I lean towards perl for one-liners lately. Perhaps my crude solution will flush out more polished ones.) regarding the rest, I dunno, I never tried that. -- 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/