RE: [rurban: Re: setup.exe command line parameters]

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

Reini Urban wrote on 24 June 2008 12:45:

> Dave Korn schrieb:
>> Christopher Faylor wrote on 22 June 2008 17:26:
>> 
>>> The patch that Reini mentions here seems to have languished.  It seems
>>> like it could be pretty useful.  Is anyone willing to review it?
>> 
>>   Yep, I'll do that - I'll wait to see what Ralph comes up with though
>> and compare the two approaches before committing anything.
> 
> Dave,
> 
> I've found another useful command-line enhancement from Max' old days.

  Nice one.  

  I'm not going to be very responsive right now, I'm at work.  I'll get onto
these patches this evening.

> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg00261.html
> Tracked at http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=854
> 
> -E: 	use IE connection settings for downloading
> -H: 	give a proxy name to use ...
> -P: 	give a proxy port to use ...
> -a:	install everything
> -u:	uninstall everything
> -e: 	re-install everything
> 
> Summary of the followups:
>    -H does not clash with -h for help, but Rob doesn't like it.
>    -P "name:port" for proxy would be preferred instead of
>       -H proxy-host -P proxy-port

  We already have a "-p host:port" proxy argument since a little while back.
Think I may have only applied it to mainline rather than branch.  Will
combine the best bits from all these patches.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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