Well this is the wrong place to grumble. It's not an OS/2 specific problem.
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55690 Britt Turnbull wrote: > > Hi2all, > > time for me to have a little grumble...... > > OK, I wanted to download SS 1.7 upgrade.... 150+Meg..... > Started the download over night... and it bombed.... > > Why...... > > I had recently installed the TCPIP FixPak... and it changed my TMP pointer > back to C:\TCPIP\TEMP... and guess what I only had 100M free on C:...... so > chalk that up to a totally incompetant Mickeysoft style kludge by IBM..... > > To IBM... leave my config.sys alone....or at least respect my changes.... > > Then there is the really clever and profoundly thought out Mozilla mechanism > to ask where I want the file stored... and then proceed to create a temp > download in the temp directory.... > > OK, I can see where on dialup, and where a user takes 2 hours to decide where > to save the file, the download can be speeded up by commencing the download to > a temp file....sheesh... > > But guys seriously... why not check drive space.... > > Why not create a tmp file in the destination location, if you just have to > have one... it took minutes to copy the temp file over to the location at the > end of the download, instead of just rename.... > > Why bother trying to save time this way.. its' takes a lot of downloads to > make up the time lost due to problems like this.... > > This has been discussed before, and nothing really seems to be happening.... > > To say I'm not impressed is somewhat of an understatement.... > > regards, > -- > Britt > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > eCs + SMP OS/2 v4.51 > check it out: http://www.ecomstation.com -- Michael Kaply IBM Mozilla Advocate Platform Owner - Warpzilla
