From: "RobertB." 

In article , "Geo"  wrote:

> Ok, so basically Acrobat Reader (free version) is just Notepad on steroids.
> It does display formatted documents, great but you can't edit anything. It's
> a glorified file viewer that views only ONE type of file.
>
> So today I was talking to an old friend about the mini systems we used to
> run, the biggest of which had 4 massive 64MB drives on it.
>
> As I'm talking to him I'm patching acrobat reader, that patch being patch
> 7.0.7 and it's 40MB (that's FORTY MEG) long.. For a patch for a file viewer?
>
> Somehow, somewhere, things have gone very very wrong..
>
> Geo.
>
>

It was equally large on OS X (well, maybe slightly smaller, but still
ridiculously large considering). Wasn't that the "patch" to fix
security concerns? I've a hunch it was more of a replacement than a patch.

robert.

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