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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 13:05:27 -0400
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: dberger AT SoftwareConstruction DOT com
CC: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
In-reply-to: <000401c0338c$96a4e1c0$6401a8c0@san.rr.com>
	(dberger AT SoftwareConstruction DOT com)
Subject: Re: Who broke the new SETUP.EXE?
References:  <000401c0338c$96a4e1c0$6401a8c0 AT san DOT rr DOT com>


> While the new SETUP.EXE is nice in that it tells you version
> numbers, etc., the previous version allowed me to create my own
> directories containing tar.gz files and it would install them for
> me.  This was very convenient for setting up specialized Cygwin
> installations at work.  Is there any way to get that behavior now?

The old behaviour still works.  Just make sure you *don't* have a
setup.ini file in that directory (or create a custom setup.ini for
that directory).

> In addition, when downloading the initial files, SETUP.EXE shouldn't
> use the simple browse dialog, but the full file dialog.  If I want
> to save in a new directory it is impossible in the browse dialog
> because it has no method to create new directories.

http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/cvs.html

I couldn't find a dialog that let you create and pick a directory,
without also letting you pick a file, which is an invalid response in
that case.

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