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Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:09:38 +1000 (EST)
From: luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au
Subject: Re: Misleading error message in setup
To: Robert Collins <rbcollins@cygwin.com>
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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 it couldn't. The error is accurate, as far as it goes. 

Well, yes - it's telling an approximation of the truth, sure.  But I
would have thought it should be reporting that it can't locate the
starting URL, rather than a specific file.

The reason it confuses is that when you look manually, using a browser
or something, you can see that the file is there, check permissions
okay, etc.

luke


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