[Box Backup] problems with large files?

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Gary,

> I am not sure the problem actually exists at all. XP systems include all 
> the necessary runtime stuff by default, all other systems can be 
> upgraded by installing, say, .NET Framework 2.0 redistributable.

Gah! Do we really have to install more than 100 MB of .net baggage just to 
run Box? Gah! again.

> Half of the new stuff like SQL Server Express does not run without it, 
> so it's on almost every Windows system on the planet.

Well, it's not on any Windows system that I've tried to run my VS-compiled 
binaries on so far. Nor on my Windows development platform, which is a 4 
GB virtual machine running Win2k, with no space for .net.

> I don't know why, but "compatibility" environments like MinGW or Cygwin 
> always make me nervous.

I can understand your problems with Cygwin, but MinGW is not a 
"compatibility" environment. It's a full-featured native compiler for 
Windows, which links against the Microsoft Visual C runtime (msvcrt.dll). 
[http://www.mingw.org].

Cheers, Chris.
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