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Re: Small documention addenda
On Nov 19 15:37, Frank Fesevur wrote:
> 2008/11/19 Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Btw., is there really no way to use setup.exe for automatic updates
> > using some of the command line switches? I honestly don't know.
>
> I use a batch file like this one. I don't schedule it, but that should
> not be a problem. The biggest problem is open files.
>
> @echo off
> c:
> cd \Cygwin
> net stop sshd
> setup --quiet-mode --no-shortcuts --no-startmenu --no-desktop
> net start sshd
Yeah, if we hadn't the open file problem it would be a nice and simple
way to automate updates. As it is, this only works if you know what
you're doing...
Corinna
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