missing telnet, solution

[Robert Collins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mstucky5 [mailto:mstucky5@cox.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 10:10 AM
> To: Cygwin@Cygwin.Com; cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: missing telnet, solution
> 
> 
> This whole thread got me thinking about possible ways
> to avoid this "xxx is missing" problem...
> 
> I thought that I'd throw an idea out for discussion...
> 
> Would it make sense to have setup install a dummy
> script for some of the common utilities and then
> overwrite that script with the actual utility if
> it is selected from the gui as it should be?

In debian, there is a package that will do this - I think it that when a
binary is not found it queries dpkg to see if a package that can provide
it exists.

Anyway, I think that an _automated_ approach to this could be quite
useful, but not a manual one. (I realise that you didn't imply either,
I'm simply getting there first :}).

Rob