[texhax] Stuck at square one

[Justin C. Walker]

On Apr 3, 2007, at 14:53 , 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.

Are you sure that nothing happens?  Did you check the 'downloads'  
window (available in the "Window" menu)?  The .dmg is very large, and  
can take quite a while to download.

Justin

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