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Re: setup 2.427 runtime error




Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

Did you, by chance, use "wget -o"?  That would put the headers into the
file.  FWIW, I just tried this[*] with Firefox 0.9.3 -- no problems.
    Igor
[*] By "this" I mean "download
http://cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/setup-2.431.tar.bz2";

No, just Firefox 0.9. Today, for the second time, the Firefox download simply stalled and would not complete.
So, Cygwin curl to the rescue -- took about 35 seconds and untarred without a problem.


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