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Subject: Re: Cygwin setup not saving "Create icon on Desktop" setting?
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On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:13:04AM -0600, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>Is this a bug?

No.

>I noticed that there's no SETUP.INI file in the Cygwin directory
>anymore, but there is an etc/setup/setup.rc file instead.

There should never have been a setup.ini in the Cygwin directory.
setup.ini is something very different from setup.rc.

setup.exe, like many other installers, will always prompt you at the end
on whether you want to create a desktop icon.

cgf

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