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Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:

> No, it's only the 289th time, which probably accounts for why you couldn't
> find it with Google. ;-)  These kinds of features are missing from
> 'setup.exe' because there hasn't been a volunteer contributor for them.
> If you're interested in contributing something, see the link below:

OK, the update of setup is not supported, but setup DOES in fact
allow fully command line based operation. I know because I moaned
about it, collected and tested patches, and even contributed a minor
fix to the option parsing.

Ralph

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