On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Daniel Morgan wrote: > Hello Cygwin Developers, > > When I am trying to install various things via Cygwin setup.exe, it stops > downloading stuff for some reason. This maybe due to my internet connection > or router. I have DSL. > > I was wondering if the setup.exe could be modified to automatically > re-start downloading the current file it stopped on. The timeout could > be 20 seconds before restarting for example. This way I could get the > entire Cygwin with no problem. Otherwise, I have to restart setup.exe a > dozen times, select a few more packages, and try to download those > packages...
It certainly could. IIRC, restarting partial downloads was on the setup TODO list at some point (maybe it still is -- I'm too lazy to look). FWIW, <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC>. > Now, if I could get the cvs software to do that too, I could participate in > open source software projects again. > > Thanks in advance, > Daniel Doesn't CVS do this already? BTW, you can also use wget to download source tarballs... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
