Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > Dave's running this command on a self-compiled version of setup. The > setup on the Cygwin site is compressed with upx, which mangles all strings > (except the PE header). So, one way to get version information into setup > is to use the "Version:" tag in the PE header (or whatever it's called), > but that will only work for the newest setup versions -- the older ones > will have the "unextractable version" problem.
In that case: upx -d setup.exe -o setup.tmp >/dev/null && \ strings setup.tmp | grep setup-version | cut -d ' ' -f 3 && \ rm setup.tmp Brian -- 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/
