From: brashear@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us (Philip Brashear)
Subject: Re: Three cheers for free CD-ROMS!
Date: 1997/11/17
Date: 1997-11-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <64q6dq$mdp@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 64pkd2$lav@pink.atlas.de
In article <64pkd2$lav@pink.atlas.de>, Lynch <lynch@castor> wrote:
>I was slightly disappointed with the "Discovering Ada" CD-ROM
>that was on my latest copy of Ada Letters. It appears to me as
>one of those kind of presentations that are "too flashy for their
>own good". No mention of any minimum requirements either.
>
>Started it up at work and got a nice title screen with a single
>button "previous user" or similar. I'm not a previous user, so
>now what? Wait, nothing happens, wait, nothing happens...
>
Well, you got further than I did. When I tried to start the thing up,
I simply got a message telling me that it couldn't unzip the files.
Period.
I'm using a Dell notebook at work and an Acer notebook at home. Neither
system would start up the CD ROM.
Any advice?
Phil Brashear
Technical Editor
ACM Ada Letters
(but I didn't have anything to do with the CD distribution)
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-10-29 0:00 Three cheers for free CD-ROMS! Debora Weber-Wulff
1997-10-29 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1997-10-30 0:00 ` John English
1997-10-30 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-11-01 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-11-02 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1997-11-17 0:00 ` Lynch
1997-11-17 0:00 ` Philip Brashear [this message]
1997-11-18 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1997-11-18 0:00 ` John English
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