[protext] Fw: installation failure, help!

[Karl Berry]

Greetings,

Overall, it seems like you haven't yet been able to download a clean
copy.

There are indeed two versions -- protext.exe, which is 425,968,887
bytes, and protext-inst.zip, which is 394,582,929 bytes.  If your
downloaded files aren't exactly those sizes, they definitely got
corrupted somewhere.  

The exe file is available from any CTAN mirror (in
systems/win32/protext); the list of hosts is at
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/CTAN.sites.  All I can think of to
suggest is to try a host as close to you as possible, and/or different
retrieval methods (http vs. ftp vs. rsync).  

I hope it works out!

Best,
Karl