[ale] More special Wondows stuff

[Nick Lucent]

All versions of IE download the file to a temp directory, then move it to
the download destination. (least 3 & 4 do, I assume < 3 does as well)

Nick

On Tue, 4 May 1999, Matthew Brown wrote:

> I'm running nt (proper spelling!) workstation at my office.  i have
> installed IE5.0 to test for compatibility of my web work.  I recently
> uncovered something very new and special with nt/i.e. that I know you will
> all find very endearing.
> 
> I opened Chris Ricker's email containing the URL for the ISO for RH6.0 at
> gatech.edu.  Since I do not pass the TCP wrappers inspections there I had to
> use the http:// download site.  Using the very handy automatic launching
> capability of the fullty integrated Windows UI, I simply clicked on the link
> within the message and up popped i.e.5.0 and began to download the file.
> Very handy, but it gets so much better so please listen carefully...  The
> file itself is ~550MB, so it takes a bit, and it's always good to monitor
> large downloads like this for speed and quality - you don't want to ruin
> someone else's throughput after all!  So, I tried a few times and it began
> having trouble, so I had to restart, and it picked up where it left off -
> sometimes.  Again - very handy.
> 
> But here's the really great part... Since I was downloading to my D:\ drive
> I was not at all careful about checking my C:\ drive to make sure there was
> space for the file.  (You should know here that evidently i.e. has a feature
> of downloading everything to the C: drive before putting it where you
> actually tell it to do.)    So, can you guess what i.e. did when it ran out
> of room on C:?  Did you say "Nothing"?  How'd you know?  i.e. downloaded the
> _entire_ file to nowhere evidently.  Having completely filled my C: drive
> with 60% of the requested file, i.e. continued downloading the _whole_ file
> without saving it.
> 
> Isn't that tremendous?
> 
> -Matthew Brown
> 
> BTW, I downloaded the thing three times in all.  Thinking I had erred in
> some way, I tried again.  Figuring it out the second time, I used another
> machine the next time!    -mab
> 
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