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Re: setup reget
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:49:18 -0700
- Subject: Re: setup reget
- Organization: My own little world...
- References: <20040623175742.15021.qmail@web52202.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Elvin Peterson wrote:
> The Cygwin setup program setup.exe does not seem to
> handle partial downloads of files. I have downloads
> interrupted in the middle of a large package like
> X11-fonts and the next time it starts from scratch.
> Is this behavior expected? Or is it just a bug in my
> install? Since almost all web and ftp servers support
> the REGET option shouldn't it be the default?
Try selecting "Use IE5 settings" instead of "Direct Connection". I'm
not sure it will matter but I think if you do it that way it will use
the IE methods instead of the built-in ones for downloading, which may
support resuming.
Brian
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