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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 10:53:00 -0500
Subject: RE: what's the problem of my cygwin installation?
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Christopher Faylor sent the following at Friday, February 05, 2010 9:59 AM
>On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 03:08:59PM +0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>>On 05/02/2010 11:58, G.W. Haywood wrote:
>>> It's long seemed to me that there's a case for changing the name of
>>> this file.  On the average Windows box it is not unusual to see
>>> several files called 'setup.exe' descended from entirely unrelated prod=
ucts.
>>
>>  The Cygwin icon is a bit of a dead giveaway.
>
> And, how, exactly, would changing the name of setup.exe
> to something else cause a DECREASE in traffic?  It seems
> like the opposite would be true. We'd have to set up a new
> "cygwin-what-happened-to-setup DOT exe AT cygwin DOT com" list.

Actually, for a while I've thought that a name change might be useful.

The icon identifies it in the GUI, but not on the command line.

I seem to remember having sometimes being blocked from doing something with=
 a
file named setup.exe.  I wasn't blocked after I changed the name or find so=
me
other way to do whatever I was trying to do with it.

(Though maybe it was with a different "setup.exe".)

- Barry
  Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.


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