Excerpted from a message dated 02-24-98, Mike Sinclair to David
Calafrancesco:
 DC> www.software.ibm.com is the top level for software choice...
 DC>                                           ...Netscsape you have
 DC> to choose to Get netscape 2.02, select OS2 for the OS and it will
 DC> dump you into IBMs netscape download directories.  
MS>I have just come offline from  the URL above. What a convoluted mess
  >!
MS>I got to "download netscape" OK and then the language selection and
  >that is as far as I could go. I tried getting to it from various
  >paths, ie via software selection, via downloads, via ad infinitum
  >but could not get past select your language no matter what I did. I
  >don't believe I am totally stupid but I have serious reservations
  >granting the same quality to whomever designed that download
  >proceedure. It does not work.
Hi Mike--
    Now you know why I suffer the World Wide Wait only when there isn't
any other way to get software that I want.  Your experience is typical
of what I usually get (not only from IBM), but this time was different.
I started at http://www.software.ibm.com/os/warp/swchoice and wandered
around for about 20 minutes (retracing my steps at times) before I found
the place that let me download NetScape/2, which took about another 30
minutes.  Since it gave me my choice of using either HTTP or FTP for the
actual download, I picked FTP or I might have fallen into your infinite
loop!  Yes, the end product was Level 7.
    Actually, I never use NetScape on the Web--only to read IBM-supplied
CD-ROMs that require it.  So I am not sure why I got myself into this
farrago in the first place except out of curiosity.  But once I was in
the morass, I was too stubborn to give up!  Incidentally, I was using
the version of WebEx (1.2) that was shipped with Warp 4 for this
expedition.  Maybe it was using WebEx, rather than NetScape/2, that let
me find my way through the wilderness :-).
    Regards,
        --Murray

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