Program ended abnormally on 22/03/2004 14:45, Due to a catastrophic Thorsten 
Froehlich error:
> In article <405e4c57@news.povray.org> , Francois Labreque 
> <fla### [at] videotronca>  wrote:
> 
> 
>>While installing Beta 2, the progress bar says "Time remaining: 0 minutes 22
>>seconds." and the time decreases as the installation goes along - as it
>>should, but when it is building the include menu, it jumps back to "Time
>>remaining: 70 minutes and 59 seconds" and starts oscillating wildly between 70
>>minutes and 65 minutes remaining.  This last step took roughly 30 seconds on
>>my machine... Not an hour.
> 
> 
> I think the estimates come from the installer software itself and are not
> under the control of the script defining what is installed.  It is hardly
> different for any other application you install.  No installer I ever saw
> claimed that the times shown are more than best-guess estimates.
> 

If you do not have any control over it, I guess I'll have to live with it.  I 
just found it strange that the estimates looked OK until the last bit.

> 
> PS: Please do not post binaries to non-binary groups!

Yeah, yeah, I know.  I thought 12K would be small enough not to annoy people.  I 
won't do it again.

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