Following the downloading problems we had in TH 128 today, when I came home I went back to the site to see if in fact the problems were there or at Quinnipiac College. It surprised me not at all to learn that indeed the problems are at Quinnipiac ... they generally are! Downloading at QC has been severely curtailed, whether via modem or via the Internet. This is not true of the library's computers though, just the ones run by the computer center. The less time you spend in the computer center, the happier you will be. Use the library instead. For now, what I have done was to download all three versions of DiDa and I am making them available to all who want to download right from my own Daedalus site. The three versions differ in the following ways:

1. DiDa172.exe is totally free and the simplest of the three, but also the most limited. It is available in a 16-bit version only but it can, and does, work for both Windows 3.1x and for Windows 95. It will work in either the computer center or the library, or anywhere else.

2. DiDa 2.0 is the "pro" addition. It is not free, but instead what is called "shareware." What that means is that those who choose to download it are free to use it, but if you like it and want to keep it, the author asks that you register it and pay a fee of $30 to do so. He leaves that matter in your hands, and whether you do so or not is entirely up to the users. It is basically a matter of honesty left in your own hands. There are two versions of the "pro" edition ... DiDaS16.exe is for users of Windows 3.1x and DidaS32.exe is for Windows 95. The computers at QC are all Windows 95, so if you want to try the "pro" edition there, you will need the latter. If you are using Windows 3.1x, you will need the 16-bit version.

In any event, all three versions are here for you to take if you want to try one of them. From the computer center, to download you need to hold down the shift key when you click on the one you choose with the left button of the mouse. Then just follow the prompts to save it to your disk in drive A. All of these are self-extracting archives, which means that just running the command will unpack the enclosed files. After that is done, you should erase the archive (because you've got its contents) and then just run the program from within Windows. Here are the choices. Make the most of the offer now, because I will not clutter the site very long with the packages simply because the CC is evidently inept. Note, by the way, that all of these editions limit you to creating files not longer than 32kb. If your needs exceed that, you will need to register one of the "pro" editions. But 32kb can create quite a term paper.