From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,XPRIO autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,cd357312036cb74f,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-04 16:00:21 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!enews.sgi.com!news.xtra.co.nz!not-for-mail From: "AG" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: OA SE observations X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Message-ID: <88%a7.742$fg7.177567@news.xtra.co.nz> Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 11:01:20 +1200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 210.55.179.16 X-Complaints-To: newsadmin@xtra.co.nz X-Trace: news.xtra.co.nz 996966020 210.55.179.16 (Sun, 05 Aug 2001 11:00:20 NZST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 11:00:20 NZST Organization: Xtra Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11298 Date: 2001-08-05T11:01:20+12:00 List-Id: Hello all, I'm not sure this is the best group to post it in, but short of mailing this directly to Aonix I guess it must be, so... I recently lost my downloaded OA SE due to some accident but didn't think much of it until I went and tried to download it again. This SE is supposed to be an easy to use, easy to get (albeit restricted) version, correct? Demo version mostly. Well... Full download is a hefty 77Mb. Do people that put that sort of file size on line really think about a casual user on a dial-up connection? It used to be (some time ago) that you could download it in several (5-7?) chunks but apparently not any more. What's so hard about splitting one 77Mb file into say 10 7.7Mb ones to make it easier to get? By now I've downloaded about 10 times the size but still don't have it because the connection is usually gone somewhere in the 60-70% download range... Another problem I've discovered when trying to download it again: This obnoxious poll form before you even get to the supposedly free download. It's all very well and fine to ask about what languages and OSes you use etc, but why insist on personal details like name and address? No big deal of course - the fields are just filled in with junk but why bother and make a bad impression? The page that is provided "for your convinience" as it says does not reload after making it a bookmark (missing @referral error). [And yes, I tried it on a plain-vanilla IE as well as other things] And last but not least - after the Core files are downloaded, unzipped, setup run et al - Running OA.EXE generates an error: "The OA.EXE file is linked to missing export MFC42.DLL:6880" MFC? In Ada? Well...