> 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!) ;-) >
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