On Aug 23, 2004, at 4:49 AM, Alan B. Pearce wrote:

>> First off, during installation, the Borland portion
>> complained that there wasn't enough hard drive space.
>> A 3MB download requiring more than 25 gigs? That's
>> some compression scheme :)
>
> I have seen this effect when the operating system is the newest
> all-singing-and-dancing extremely large disk capable, and the program
> one is trying to install just doesn't know about such humungous
> amounts of disk space, and proceeds to take only the bottom handful of
> bits

Yeah, like 32bits, which is "only" 2 or 4GB.

BillW

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