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Q on digital download
Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 3:07 am
by nugeneral
i purchased AT today, just the digital version. i want to burn to a disk-should i burn the zip or the .exe file?
thanks
FW:
Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 3:43 am
by hermanhum
I think that you are perfectly fine with just burning the *.exe file. From what I've been told, the only reason why the *.exe file is placed within a *.zip file is because some systems do not allow users DL access to files named *.exe. Placing them within a *.zip file seems to get around this problem.
RE: FW:
Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 6:14 am
by JudgeDredd
Yep...what he said. Burn the exe.
RE: FW:
Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 11:04 am
by sterckxe
ORIGINAL: hermanhum
I think that you are perfectly fine with just burning the *.exe file. From what I've been told, the only reason why the *.exe file is placed within a *.zip file is because some systems do not allow users DL access to files named *.exe. Placing them within a *.zip file seems to get around this problem.
Another reason is that it makes it more easy to detect a corrupt download - if you can't extract the exe from the zip it's a corrupt download but if you downloaded an exe straight there's no easy way of telling if the download succeeded or not
BTW : glad to see you got reinstated here [;)]
Greetz,
Eddy Sterckx
RE: FW:
Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 3:03 pm
by nugeneral
ok thanks much