Re: Problems downloading and installing the basic package

2002-12-16 Thread Dmitry Epstein
At 11:24 AM 12/16/02 -0500, you wrote: Why not use Cygwin perl? Cygwin comes with a perfectly nice perl 5.8, which works at least as well as ActiveState's perl. You could even associate Cygwin's perl with .pl files in Explorer, to completely replace ActivePerl. Igor ActivePerl has more

Re: Problems downloading and installing the basic package

2002-12-16 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Dmitry Epstein wrote: > [CDROM installation part snipped] > > >This is discouraged, although im not quite sure why, but it can be a > >pain if you need to un-install. About the cygdrive prefix this is just > >default and you can change where and how you access your windows dr

Re: Problems downloading and installing the basic package

2002-12-15 Thread Dmitry Epstein
At 11:17 AM 12/15/02 +, you wrote: Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 21:09:46 -0800 (PST) From: Elfyn McBratney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problems downloading and installing the basic package Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, When

Re: Problems downloading and installing the basic package

2002-12-14 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 12:09 AM 12/15/2002, Elfyn McBratney wrote: >Lastly you said you installed in the root of a windows drive. This is >discouraged, although im not quite sure why, but it can be a pain if you >need to un-install. See the FAQ for the reasoning behind this recommendation: Why not install in C:\?

Re: Problems downloading and installing the basic package

2002-12-14 Thread Elfyn McBratney
Hi, When you download the packages, put them on a cd, do you get problems with the directories created by setup? This has caused problems for me and others, FYI there's a thread either early this month or late last month that goes into this a bit more called "How to make setup.exe download everyth

Problems downloading and installing the basic package

2002-12-14 Thread Dmitry Epstein
Hi, I have Cygwin installed at work and I am now trying to install it at home. Since I have a slow connection there, what I usually do is download the package at work, put it on a Zip or a CD-ROM, and then install from disk at home. But I am having problems with the latest version of the ins