Re: How to make setup.exe default to local-install?

2009-01-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-13, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: On 01/12/2009, Grant Edwards wrote: It looks like a batch file would work, but it pops up a nuisance console window. [Question: does local directory refer to the directory where setup.exe is located or to the current

Re: How to make setup.exe default to local-install?

2009-01-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-13, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: On 01/12/2009, Grant Edwards wrote: It looks like a batch file would work, but it pops up a nuisance console window. [Question: does local directory refer to the directory where setup.exe is located or to the current

Re: How to make setup.exe default to local-install?

2009-01-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-13, Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com wrote: On 2009-01-13, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: On 01/12/2009, Grant Edwards wrote: It looks like a batch file would work, but it pops up a nuisance console window. [Question: does local directory refer to the

Re: How to make setup.exe default to local-install?

2009-01-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-01-13, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com wrote: ^^ http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. On 01/12/2009, Grant Edwards wrote: It looks like a batch

Re: How to make setup.exe default to local-install?

2009-01-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-13, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com wrote: Are you only interested in knowing where the local directory defaults to the first time it is run on a machine without a Cygwin installation? Yes. If so, then yes, it is CWD. Thanks for confirming that. That's what

How to make setup.exe default to local-install?

2009-01-12 Thread Grant Edwards
I'm creating a Cygwin snapshot for installation from CD, and I've got everything figured out except for one thing: I need setup.exe to default to a local install. I can't use a shortcut to run setup.exe because shortcuts have absolute paths. It looks like a batch file would work, but it pops up

Re: How to make setup.exe default to local-install?

2009-01-12 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 01/12/2009, Grant Edwards wrote: It looks like a batch file would work, but it pops up a nuisance console window. [Question: does local directory refer to the directory where setup.exe is located or to the current working directory?] It refers to the local directory containing all the