I know how you feel about that damn MS installer app. Instead of FTPing
down the file, which is a hell of a lot faster than going via http .. you
are looking at outregous DL times ... IE4 on a 14.4 modem is 27 HOURS ... I
could FTP NS4 in 50 mins ... what browser will I get?
* thinks MS has yet to think ANY of their projects through
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God, Root, what is difference?
-- Pitr, UserFriendly
-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Killpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, December 09, 1998 6:52 PM
Subject: RE: WC:>: Personal Web Server download site
>Susan Duncan wrote:
>
>> ColdFusion Studio comes with the personal webserver, as well as a
>> single user
>> version of CF.
>
>I have CF Studion 3.1.1 and there's no sign of Personal Web Server on the
>CD. Bummer. I'm in the process of downloading PWS from microsoft.com, using
>their convoluted download system:
>
>1. Find app you want on site (new version of microsoft.com seems to have
>better searching, but the first link it fed me for PWS came up 404! Oops).
>2. Click the app you want. In the case of PWS, if you want PWS for Win 95
>you have to download the NT Service Pack 4 installer. Makes sense to me.
>3. Get past a typical MS survey type form (only one required field!)
>4. Download the installer app (520k)
>5. Run the installer app
>6. Answer a bunch of questions in the wizard
>7. When you pick the OS that you want to install to, in this case Win95,
you
>get a dialog that gives you three versions of PWS that you may install
(min,
>stnd and max) with no explanation about the difference between them
>8. Pick a server to download from (one that's near you)
>9. Start download
>
>Now wasn't that easy! Holy shi#@@
>
>Then, the download has been coming in at around 2k a second on my 56k
modem,
>real slow. It has also stalled twice. Each time I clicked "Cancel" and
>restarted the installer app, answered the same questions again and the
>download resumed (which I suppose is good).
>
>Sheesh, sheesh, weesh....ug, grunt. This is advanced technology?
>
>Jack
>
>> Jack Killpatrick wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Anyone know a place other than microsoft.com where I can get
>> Personal Web
>> > Server for Win95/8? The download from the MS site is 22mb for
>> the minimal
>> > install. I can't believe the install is that large and have my
>> suspicions
>> > that there's a bunch of crap along with it that I don't need.
>> >
>> > I have to setup someone's Win98 machine with a Web Server that
>> will run CF.
>> > It looks like Personal Web Server is my best bet...it's the
>> only free one on
>> > Allaire's compatibility list for Win95/8.
>> >
>> > TIA,
>> > Jack
>>
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