Re: [Unattended] "Prepare" script in Cygwin environment

2003-11-19 Thread Mark Harburn
what about md5'ing the files people download so if there is an unexpcted change it warns someone so a diffrent version does not break things. - Original Message - From: "Patrick J. LoPresti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "James Barlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [Unattended] "Prepare" script in Cygwin environment

2003-11-19 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
"James Barlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --13:40:38-- http://-o/ >=> `index.html' > Resolving -o... failed: Host not found. That is doubly peculiar. First, the script uses "-O", not "-o". Second, "-o" should be processed as an option. I am strongly inclined to rewrite the scrip

Re: [Unattended] Prepare Script. Better download source.

2003-11-19 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
Jan Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Instead of using some of the rather cryptic download addresses > provided by Microsoft , this mirrorserver might be considered as an > alternative. > > ftp://ftp.cert.dfn.de/pub/vendor/microsoft Is that mirror maintained automatically? If so, perhaps we

[Unattended] Prepare Script. Better download source.

2003-11-19 Thread Jan Brauer
Instead of using some of the rather cryptic download addresses provided by Microsoft , this mirrorserver might be considered as an alternative. ftp://ftp.cert.dfn.de/pub/vendor/microsoft Languages provided are English and German only though.. Cheers, Jan --

[Unattended] "Prepare" script in Cygwin environment

2003-11-19 Thread James Barlow
Title: Message I'm having a go with the new u-3.4 prepare script on an XP box running cygwin.   The download bit works really well, but rather than writing to the named sub-directories, the scripts puts all the files in the root of the install directory.   For example:   --13:40:13--  htt