Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 17:53:51 +0000
From: David Leftley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Download MSIE Service Pack2 where?

On Fri, 9 Nov 2001 12:33:14 -0800, "Matthew Hanson"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>When you say "it downloads it to your temp dir" here, you're not saying that 
>ie6setup.exe downloads anything more from the Internet, right?  Do you mean 
>that ie6setup.exe EXTRACTS installation files from the files previously 
>downloaded at work, to a temp directory in order to set up MSIE on the 
>system at home?

Now that you mention it, I was a bit misleading in my previous message
when I said that ie6setup.exe downloads ie6wzd.exe - of course it is
just a self-extracting archive and the files it put in my temp dir
were just extracted from the archive.

Or were you asking whether ie6setup.exe downloads any files at all
from the net? Of course ie6setup.exe is just a small app to kick off
downloading of the relevant files for your machine (or of the whole
thing, if you use the right arguments). That's why it is < 500 KB -
the full install that it downloads is about 50 MB (which it puts in
"c:\Windows Update Setup Files" - but I think it offers you an option
for this).

Hope that makes a bit more sense now. Of course I have to add the
disclaimer that I have only tried using it to download in this way on
a Win2000 box - it might not work the same way under Win9x.

David.




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