From: cygwin-announce-owner > > A new version of Setup, release 2.880, has been uploaded to > > https://cygwin.com/setup-x86.exe (32 bit version) > https://cygwin.com/setup-x86_64.exe (64 bit version) > ... > Please send bug reports, as usual, to the public mailing list cygwin AT > cygwin DOT com.
So, I went to download this latest setup.exe using the script that I've been using... #!/bin/sh # From http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-04/msg00714.html name=setup-x86_64.exe wget -O $name --quiet http://cygwin.com/$name || exit # ACL issues require some fixing up after wget chmod +x $name exit ...but Windows complained about the file format when I tried to launch it. Then "file" told me... $ file *.exe setup-x86_64.exe: gzip compressed data, from Unix $ ...so I added suffix .gz and then used (actually) WinZip to unzip it, and it created a working setup.exe. So, is this new behavior? Is it to be expected going forward? --Ken Nellis
