Re: Command-line options for setup.exe

2003-02-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Lars Munch wrote: On Sat, Feb 22, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:15:29PM -0500, Garg, Rajiv wrote: Does setup.exe support command-line options? If so, where can I find the documentation for them? I would like to roll-out Cygwin to 300+ machines and command-line options to install

Re: Command-line options for setup.exe

2003-02-25 Thread Max Bowsher
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: There is even a patch outstanding that adds a --help option to list all available options: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-02/msg0.html (with one caveat: setup has to be built as a Cygwin app from source for you to see console output). No, building it as a

Re: Command-line options for setup.exe

2003-02-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: There is even a patch outstanding that adds a --help option to list all available options: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-02/msg0.html (with one caveat: setup has to be built as a Cygwin app from source for you

Re: Command-line options for setup.exe

2003-02-25 Thread Max Bowsher
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: No, building it as a MinGW app is fine. But it must be run from a CYGWIN=tty shell. Oh, ok. I don't use tty myself, so I needed it built as a Cygwin app. Could it, perhaps, pop up a dialog box instead if stdout is not

Re: Command-line options for setup.exe

2003-02-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On 26 Feb 2003, Robert Collins wrote: On Wed, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:46, Max Bowsher wrote: Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Max Bowsher wrote: No, building it as a MinGW app is fine. But it must be run from a CYGWIN=tty shell. Oh, ok. I don't use tty myself, so I

Re: Command-line options for setup.exe

2003-02-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 10:26, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: That will let setup iterate over the options, extracting the help text and placing into a GUI text area (or a combobox etc etc). Hmm, build a const String and pop up a MessageBox? Igor As a 'For instance', yes. Rob -- GPG

Re: Command-line options for setup.exe

2003-02-25 Thread Robert Collins
A cute thing that the iteration interface to the command line options would enable is a 'tip of the day' - randomly choose a parameter from the collection, and show just it to the user. (Presumably combined with some static tips on the GUI :]). Rob -- GPG key available at:

Re: Command-line options for setup.exe

2003-02-25 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On 26 Feb 2003, Robert Collins wrote: A cute thing that the iteration interface to the command line options would enable is a 'tip of the day' - randomly choose a parameter from the collection, and show just it to the user. (Presumably combined with some static tips on the GUI :]). Rob

RE: Command-line options for setup.exe

2003-02-25 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
On 26 Feb 2003, Robert Collins wrote: A cute thing that the iteration interface to the command line options would enable is a 'tip of the day' - randomly choose a parameter from the collection, and show just it to the user. (Presumably combined with some static tips on the GUI :]).

Re: Command-line options for setup.exe

2003-02-24 Thread Lars Munch
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 12:15:29PM -0500, Garg, Rajiv wrote: Does setup.exe support command-line options? If so, where can I find the documentation for them? I would like to roll-out Cygwin to 300+ machines and command-line options to install all packages found in network share would be

Re: Command-line options for setup.exe

2003-02-24 Thread Barry Buchbinder
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 12:15:29PM -0500, Garg, Rajiv wrote: Does setup.exe support command-line options? see http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg01490.html - Barry Buchbinder __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators,