> Out of curiosity would downloading setup.exe using wget also work > around the problem?
Most likely. I don't think wget cares about protecting Windows users from their own stupidity. If you use wget, you should know what you're doing. How about you just give it a try? Otto -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple