Right on Duane...
this has to be one of the most assinine ways for a program to behave...
ask the user where he wants something, ignore the user and go put
it somewhere totally different.. what a kludge... and caused me no end
of grief....until I figured out what it was doing...
Duane Chamblee wrote:
>
> I don't know why/who decided that downloaded files are put in %TEMP%
> first then moved, but this is an extremely bad idea.
>
> For instance download a mostly full CD .ISO image and see what I mean.
>
> 1) the Temp has to have at least the freespace of the download
> 2) the "move" from temp to target takes a VERY long time for large files.
> 3) I think it was said that the download starts while Moz is asking for
> the location... although that's cute, it doesn't really help.
>
> can't this be switched off?
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Britt
eCs + SMP OS/2 v4.51
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OS2 the more you use it, the easier your life beomes...
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