RE: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet

["Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>]

> Robert Collins wrote in <016301c1ef7b$4d769f00$0200a8c0@lifelesswks>
> in gmane.os.cygwin on Mon, 29 Apr 2002 22:42:18 +1000:
> 
> > Actually, the current functionality wil do the trick, as long as you
> > install what you have downloaded. 
> 
> Hmmm. I've just tried using "install from Internet" with bzip2,
> sharutils, unzip and zip, on a machine that doesn't have them
> installed and killing the connection after bzip2 has downloaded.
> 
> When it says "download incomplete, try again" I say "No" and it
> attempts to do the install.
> 
> I'm then getting "Can't open (null) for reading" errors during the
> attempted installation of sharutils (the sharutils sub-directory has
> been created but is empty) and a "installation incomplete" message box
> at the end but it /has/ installed bzip2.
> 
> It's pretty ugly but it does seem to be working and if I reselect
> bzip2 when I try again it isn't attempting to download it again so
> yes, you could get there even on a slow link. (Not exactly good UI
> design though!) ;-)
> 

My ears are burning... ;-)

-- 
Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer.  Patriot. 

 

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