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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: System 5.0
Message-ID: <35798@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 21 Oct 89 01:00:31 GMT
References: <8910151143.aa16045@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <8910151143.aa16045@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> STEIN@UCONNVM.BITNET (Alan Stein) writes:
[...]
>  It would be much easier if Apple included a read.me file telling which
>files were needed where for what.

The installer is there because a lot of people don't care about the gory
details--the information you want *is* available, though, in GS/OS Technical
Note #1.  (The Installer still knows more than the technote, since it
automatically *deletes* files from older system software versions that
are required *not* to be there.)
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