[texhax] Stuck at square one

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On 3 Apr 2007, at 22:53, John Baker wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I want to use (La)TeX, etc.
>
> With Safari, I navigate to  http://www.tug.org/mactex/
>
> Either via the "MacTeX-2007" link or the corresponding "Download"  
> button, I
> set the browser URL field to load or reload the page
>
> ftp://ctan.cms.math.ca/tex-archive/systems/mac/mactex/MacTeX.dmg
>
> and nothing happens.

Yes indeed, it seems that their server is a bit slow.

> What was I supposed to do?

Nothing more than want you did :) Just be patient and try again (I  
tried and it eventually worked). Or alternatively, try
http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/getFile.py?fn=/systems/mac/mactex/ 
MacTeX-20070222.dmg
which has some other mirrors.

> Thanks,
> John Baker
> Vancouver, Canada
>
> Configuration: Dual 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4 / 2GB RAM / OS X 10.4.8
>  / Safari 2.0.4
>
>
>
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