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18 years ago

Suggestion : Enhance Download Opportunies for Altera Installation files

Depending on the customer, I am working for, I often suffer from restrictions of the given PC especially the (im-)possibility to install active-X plugins. So it is not possible to e.g. install Altera...
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18 years ago

You can download and use the wget utility (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm)) which is a Win32 port of the well known command line GNU download tool. It doesn't need installation and it's one of the best download utilities you'll ever need - use it to download from the ftp site (or http if you have the direct link).

I can't imagine a reason for a company to deny engineers to have such basic tools on their computers.