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 Subject: Re: Misleading error message in setup From: Robert Collins To: luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <20030918024801.CC2F734C41@nevin.research.canon.com.au> References: <20030918024801.CC2F734C41@nevin.research.canon.com.au> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-Q/ZVlJ8O+E+O/CUHxWdN" Message-Id: <1063882813.962.3.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 21:00:13 +1000 --=-Q/ZVlJ8O+E+O/CUHxWdN Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 12:48, luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au 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 wrong, setup complains that it can't find > the setup....tar.bz2 file. >=20 > 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 it couldn't. The error is accurate, as far as it goes. PTC. Rob --=20 GPG key available at: . --=-Q/ZVlJ8O+E+O/CUHxWdN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/aZA9I5+kQ8LJcoIRAs2kAJ43FxwVJ3R57LHfJEWYRIStZLZ1PQCfcjCG sH3zpgGMgq7Wdv2P1TiuuRo= =oBUp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Q/ZVlJ8O+E+O/CUHxWdN--