From:	Mike Loseke <mike@******.VERINET.COM>
Subject:	Re: The Shadowrun Archive Channel
Date:	Fri, 25 Jul 1997 16:10:30 -0600

Quoth David Buehrer:
>
> Paolo Marcucci wrote:
> |
> | At 11:49 25/07/97 -0600, David Buehrer said:
> | >I checked out the new site, which looks great BTW. I clicked on the
> | >button to subscribe and it started to download a .cdf file. I have no
> | >idea what a .cdf file is, or what it is used for. Help.
> |
> | You should have ie40 to use the channel function. If you don't have it,
> | just browse the site normally, but it won't be sent to you with a daily
> | schedule, that is, you should connect and enter the site to see changes.
>
> So I downloaded ie40. The damn thing left me 3.4 megs of space on my
> hardrive, and installed that web-interface desktop. Oi! It took me
> two hours to get everything straightened out! Thanks loads Paolo ;)
>
> Anyway, I didn't have time to look at it to closely, but on the
> surface it looks good. Love that remote :) I'm looking forward to
> see how the channel thing works.
>
> For anyone else that plans on downloading ie40, make sure you have at
> least 100 megs of free disk space. And to turn off that web/desktop
> go to control panel, add/remove programs, and select ie40. After you
> click on the remove button it'll give you the option of selectivly
> uninstalling parts of it, and that's where you can turn off the
> web/desktop.

All I can say is "Thank God Microsoft doesn't have any control on what
I use as my window manager on Solaris/Linux/NeXT/HP/etc..." ;)

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