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From: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MPW 3.0 Installation
Keywords: installation error what gives?
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Date: 16 Jul 89 19:46:43 GMT
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In article <775@biar.UUCP> trebor@biar.UUCP (Robert J Woodhead) writes:
>Gee, I just got the MPW 3.0 upgrade and tried to run the installer.
>Followed the instructions to the letter and it bombs out and says it
>can't find a script file that is definitely there.
>
>Anyone installed 3.0 properly?  Whats going on?  I know I could do it
>manually, but I'm a lazy sot.  Besides, I object to installers that
>blow up for no reason.  Bleah.

     Same thing happened to me.  I was trying to install MPW 3.0 over
my old MPW 2.0.2 folder.  Instructions say this is OK to do, but three
attempts convinced me otherwise.

     This is what I did:

     Rename my old MPW folder to something else.  (Delete it if there
is insufficient disk space, saving any files you want to keep.)

     Follow installation process as for new MPW installation.  This
should go smoothly.  Result is new MPW folder.

     Move files that you need to keep into proper locations in new MPW
folder.  In my case this was Aztec C and some tools I had created.  (I
keep my source files in another folder.)

Earle R. Horton
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