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From: baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Installer lobotomized in 6.0.4
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Date: 26 Oct 89 14:27:42 GMT
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In article <35918@apple.Apple.COM> bjones@Apple.COM (Bruce Jones) writes:
>As for your other comments about the Installer, yes I agree they are problems.
>But they aren't new problems.  We are installing basically the same stuff that
>old Installer did.  But the new Installer's design will let us do much better.
>System 7.0 is introducing a lot of changes in the System Folder, and the 
>Installer will be able to be more intelligent about what it's doing.   I think
>you'll like the results.
>
>Thanks for the feedback.
>Bruce

Thanks, Bruce, for bringing the Installer up to date.  The new version
is vastly easier and more obvious for the novice; I no longer have to
tell people, "...and then after you install the System, put in the
Printer Tools disk and drag..."; instead, the Installer guides them
through every step.

Also, those of us with only a single floppy appreciate the reduction
in disk swaps when doing an install to floppy: from 50,000 to about
about a dozen.

Now when the Font/DA Mover goes away with System 7, we'll really be in
business...  :-)

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