[users] Re: [moderated] I -really- TRULY want to use open office!

2007-02-04 Thread Russell Butler
melchar wrote: > However, I just spent 12 hours totday trying to download the > darned thing and my dial-up BOTH times at about the 6-7 hour mark > dropped signal and the download stopped. And then would not > re-establish the download at where it stopped, so I had to do it all > over aga

[users] Re: [moderated] I -really- TRULY want to use open office!

2007-02-05 Thread melchar
That is tough, especially getting a bad CD. Do you use a download manager? There are several shown on the Download page of OOo http://download.openoffice.org/index.html Another alternative is peer-to-peer, as this checks each "chunk" as it downloads and will reload anything missing.

Re: [users] Re: [moderated] I -really- TRULY want to use open office!

2007-02-04 Thread Keith Bates
On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:01:41 +1100 Russell Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > melchar wrote: > > However, I just spent 12 hours totday trying to download > > the darned thing and my dial-up BOTH times at about the 6-7 hour > > mark dropped signal and the download stopped. And then would

Re: [users] Re: [moderated] I -really- TRULY want to use open office!

2007-02-07 Thread James Knott
melchar wrote: > >> That is tough, especially getting a bad CD. >> >> Do you use a download manager? There are several shown on the Download >> page of OOo http://download.openoffice.org/index.html >> >> Another alternative is peer-to-peer, as this checks each "chunk" as it >> downloads and will re