On Friday 06 January 2006 17:02, D.L. Gomez wrote: >Gentlemen, > >After five attempts, [The first four attempts failed when my dial-up > internet connection was interrupted, and the Free Download Manager > that you recommended was not able to Resume the download from the > point of interruption] I have finally succeeded in downloading your > OpenOffice.org, Version 2.0.1 Office Suite Program. > >That being said, I am no further ahead in my attempt to install, > operate and evaluate your program. The name of the file, as > downloaded, is the following: > >OOo_2.0.1_Win32Intel_install_wJRE.exe > >Following the procedures in your "Installation Guide," [i.e. "Windows > Explorer users will want to find the file and double-click to launch > the Installation program...In either case, your unzip utility will > start if one is successfully installed on your system."]. I have > WinZip 8.1 SR-1 utility on my system, and it is in perfect functional > condition. > >When I try double-clicking on the downloaded file in Windows Explorer, > all I get is the following error message: > >NSIS Error >The installer you are trying to use is corrupted or incomplete. >This could be the result of a damaged disk, a failed download or a > virus. You may want to contact the author of this installer to obtain > a new copy. It may be possible to skip this check using the /NCRC > command line switch (NOT RECOMMENDED).
If you used exploder to download the file, its possible that it thought it was a text file and did some unwanted line end conversions, therefore trashing the file. I'm told that holding down the shift key while clicking to initiate the download fixes this, but I have no personal experience since I'm running linux here. But I'd use some other program to do the download, such as firefox, which doesn't suffer from those winduhzz agravations. I believe it can also do resumes in the event your circuit is subject to glitches. Get it first, and use it exclusively as its far more secure. Google for mozilla-firefox, and don't forget to hold the shift key down when starting the download. And as you may have guessed, I'm not on a winduhzz machine so I don't have those problems. >I do not pretend to be a master of computer literacy, so when I come > across an error message such as this, I simply throw my hands up in > surrender. I have had and worked with the Microsoft Office Suite for > a number of years, and have not had any of these difficulties or > error messages when installing or operating any of the programs > therein, such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint. I have also installed > numerous other software programs on my computer, and at no time have > I ever received an error message telling me that my "installer" is > corrupted or incomplete. Therefore, I can only assume that there is > something wrong with the OpenOffice program file that I downloaded > directly from your Website. Thats a safe assumption, given that you were apparently useing an M$ utility to effect the download. >I have referred to your installation, setup and help pages, and I find > nothing that helps me overcome the problem that I described above. > However, I am quite interested in trying and evaluating your > OpenOffice Program, and would appreciate any assistance you can give > me in getting it setup on my computer. I would also be interested in > obtaining the program on a CD ROM, which perhaps would help me avoid > the problems described above. > >As a matter of interest, I am operating from a Windows 98 SE platform, > and I have a Pentium III - 450 MHz Processor. You may be able to speed that up with additional memory. You didn't say how much, but typically if only 64 megs is going to be using a swap file, bringing it to glacial speeds for big apps. 256 megs or more will make a huge difference if that motherboard can make use of it. >Regards, > >David Gomez >5 Rosemount Drive >Welland, Ontario >Canada L3C 2H2 > >E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
