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Re: rad studio 2007 trial, installation downloads

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From: dhoke
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:27
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It appears the prompts time-out after some period of time, and try the 
download anyway...

A counter indicating that a countdown timeout is happening would have been a 
nice addition to the dialog, for future reference.  Probably still would be 
for future downloading installers. :)

"dhoke" <dhoke.nojunk@east-shore.com> wrote in message 
news:4720c907@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Is there a way to get the trial installation to download everything the 
> first time, without having to babysit it and answer all the prompts that 
> say it failed to extract the downloaded data, which hasn't yet been 
> downloaded?
>
> (I've had to respond to about four such inquiries so far, and am doubting 
> I have the patience if there are many more of these, spread over how many 
> hours it takes to download the 500MB-1GB of data the web page indicated 
> may be necessary.)
>
> Thanks.
> 
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