Re: Setup.exe and accessability

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 02:05:14PM +0200, Lars Bj?rndal wrote:
> >As far I can see, you can not select individual packages within
> >setup.exe without using the mouse. I'm blind, and therefore I can not
> >install cygwin without assistance from a sighted person. Is it
> >possible that this will be changed in the next version? Or is there a
> >posibility that I have not seen?
>
> The only thing that I can think of that could possibly be of use is
> the oft-mentioned command line options for setup.exe.  Various people
> have mentioned that they were going to work on this but I've never
> seen anyone (besides Robert of course) follow through on fully realizing
> this to the point where you can install packages from the command line.

Adding keyboard shortcuts to the package selection screen (i.e., <Tab>bing
to the Action column and the checkboxes) would do it as well, I suppose.
"Did I phrase that sufficiently neutrally to avoid being asked to submit a
patch?" (C) R. Schulz.
	Igor
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