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RE: new setup.exe crashes with kde's setup.ini


> [Per instructions at http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/kde2.php]
> 
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 08:02:47PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> > AFAICT http://prdownloads.sf.net/kde-cygwin/setup.ini is not a valid
> > setup.ini.
> > 
> > It's a redirect page of some sort.
> 
> Yes.  They've been screwed by the download mirror system Sourceforge
> introduced on 2002-05-03.  As I wrote when I changed prc-tools's
> .htaccess to deal with this:
> 
> 	Update the redirect to cope with Sourceforge's new download
> 	mirror system.  You'd think they could have implemented that
> 	without breaking all the old URLs, but no...
> 
> They need to tell people to use
> 
> 	http://us.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/kde-cygwin/setup.ini
> 
> (or similar) instead.
> 
Thanks for this hint, I will update the website. 

> That works fine in 2.249.2.4 but has a parse error in the 2.253
> snapshot, perhaps because of the blank line at the end.

> 
> (Hey, nice parse error message!  That'll help if the bizarre parse error
> prc-tools's setup.ini was intermittently getting recurs.)
> 
>     John
> 


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