setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet

Tue Apr 30 01:58:00 GMT 2002

> Robert Collins wrote in <016301c1ef7b4ドルd769f00$0200a8c0@lifelesswks>
> in gmane.os.cygwin on 2002年4月29日 22:42:18 +1000:
>> > Actually, the current functionality wil do the trick, as long as you
> > install what you have downloaded. 
>> Hmmm. I've just tried using "install from Internet" with bzip2,
> sharutils, unzip and zip, on a machine that doesn't have them
> installed and killing the connection after bzip2 has downloaded.
>> When it says "download incomplete, try again" I say "No" and it
> attempts to do the install.
>> I'm then getting "Can't open (null) for reading" errors during the
> attempted installation of sharutils (the sharutils sub-directory has
> been created but is empty) and a "installation incomplete" message box
> at the end but it /has/ installed bzip2.
>> It's pretty ugly but it does seem to be working and if I reselect
> bzip2 when I try again it isn't attempting to download it again so
> yes, you could get there even on a slow link. (Not exactly good UI
> design though!) ;-)
>
My ears are burning... ;-)
-- 
Gary R. Van Sickle
Brewer. Patriot. 
 
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