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Re: 'redownload' aka download again and cygwin setup
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- To: Robert Collins <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com, cygwn at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 07:32:30 -0400
- Subject: Re: 'redownload' aka download again and cygwin setup
- References: <00ad01c1ef6f$2066a250$0200a8c0@lifelesswks>
I've used the redownload feature to reget a corrupted downloaded file.
Not often, but it's worth saving the functionality.
Earnie.
Robert Collins wrote:
>
> Ok. Time for a straw poll.
>
> Please write back (to me or the list, your choice) whether you use the
> DELIBERATE 'download again' functionality of setup.exe or not.
> And if so, how often and for what purpose.
>
> This is to determine if certain functionality that -in essence- causes
> the 'accidental' redownloading of files in 'download only' mode.
>
> Both positive and negative answers are useful, but in the absence of any
> significant number of answers, I will assume that no-one uses the
> functionality.
>
> Unless there is a real user need for it, the functionality will be
> removed in the next setup.exe release.
>
> Rob