Christopher Faylor sent the following at Monday, June 11, 2012 10:56 AM >On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 04:51:07PM +0200, Otto Meta wrote: >>cgf wrote: >>> 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? > >Er, I don't have this problem. I wasn't the one reporting it.
Since I reported it. I used curl and didn't have the problem. curl -R -o getcygwin.exe http://cygwin.com/setup.exe Also, the x bit was set. -rwxr-xr-x 1 705053 2012-04-29 02:27:44 getcygwin.exe Two solutions! Is this a great list or what! Thanks to all. - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- 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
