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 Message-ID: <3DAF49F8.675B3CB5@yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 19:38:32 -0400 From: CBFalconer Reply-To: cbfalconer@worldnet.att.net Organization: Ched Research X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Installation Problem (Can't open C:\/ftp%3a%2f%2farchive.progeny.com[...] for writing: No such file or directory) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Eddy Boxerman wrote: > > I tried to download cygwin and do a local install. This failed, so > I uninstalled (deleted links, directories & registry entries) and > tried a direct from internet install. It seems that no matter what > options I choose, I get an error (see subject or below). > > OS: Win98 > > Below is an extract from the setup.log.full: > > Thanks, > Eddy > > get_url_to_file > ftp://archive.progeny.com/cygwin/release/ash/ash-20020731-1.tar.bz2 > C:\/ftp%3a%2f%2farchive.progeny.com%2fcygwin/release/ash/ash-20020731-1.tar. > bz2.tmp > ftp > 226 Transfer complete. > ftp > 227 Entering Passive Mode (216,37,55,114,225,181) > ftp > 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for > '/cygwin/release/ash/ash-20020731-1.tar.bz2' (46081 bytes). > 2002/10/17 14:00:34 mbox fatal: Can't open > C:\/ftp%3a%2f%2farchive.progeny.com%2fcygwin/release/ash/ash-20020731-1.tar. > bz2.tmp for writing: No such file or directory > 2002/10/17 14:00:35 Ending cygwin install Not sure about the relevance here, but those directory names are normally not accessible from the DOS command line, because the '%' specify an environment variable. It can be handled in 4dos because there is an escape char. to force them through. Wildcarding can also penetrate them. -- Chuck F (cbfalconer@yahoo.com) (cbfalconer@worldnet.att.net) Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems. USE worldnet address! -- 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/