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From: C506634@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Eric Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Pet Peves or Why,  oh why do they do this? (long)
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Date: 14 Jun 89 20:51:42 GMT
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>In article <574@bnr-fos.UUCP> protcoop@bnr-public.UUCP (Joel Avery) writes:

[Complains about programs that must be run by booting the disks]
[stuff deleted]
>>time.  By making your programs need to be booted you eliminate
>>the possibility of doing this.  The first thing I had to do with
>>MaxiPlan is to sleuth the startup-sequence to make sure there was
>>nothing special in there.  Then I deleted everything that made it
>>a workbench disk.  I would hate to have to do all of that if I
[Expresses proper outrage at this]

>You can usually follow the "Hard Disk" install instructions, but
>install it on a floppy, with appropriate changes.
Unfortunately many of these hard disk instructions want to stuff things in
c:, fonts:, l: etc.  Where there usually isn't room on a floppy system.  Not
to mention programs that dont't HAVE explicit hard disk instructions.  Really
programs should have a "fall back" mode when they are not installed quite
according to instructions.  For example, Word Perfect likes to have some stuff
in the Libs: directory.  If it can't find it then it looks in :libs (Or is that
 ""/libs?  Hmmmm.  Is that legit syntax?)
>
>Thats one of the appeal of workbench, the only thing you need to know   NT
>is how to insert a disk, and how to click on an icon.

But if you have to hack the instalation procedure just to avoid booting from
the disk that blissfull ignorance is shattered.

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