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From: donald.phillipson@canremote.uucp (DONALD PHILLIPSON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PCTOOLS upgrade
Message-ID: <90011904271983@masnet.uucp>
Date: 4 Jan 90 07:46:00 GMT
Organization: Canada Remote Systems Limited, Mississauga, ON, Canada
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(Cannot delete my own inquiry, now answered.)   Ugrade to PCTools 5.5
(from 5.1) distributed via BBSs, must be made separately, file by file,
for each of the 6 or 7 modules of PCTOOLS.    Reason:  the upgrades are
distributed in two flavours, one of which processes a set of four files
through a .BAT file, and the other half dozen separately, as
self-unpacking (LHARC) archives.   All you do is run what purports to be 
the PCTOOLS file, which then overwrites itself (often) and generates
both a .DOC and a RUNME.BAT file for decryption (using your existing
PCTOOLS 5.1).   The point is that the syntax of each upgrade process is
the same, so if you try to process a set of them by a .BAT file you will 
get hopelessly lost.
Main thing is, the upgrade is well worth-while:  more commands, and
above all most 2-key commands now replaced by 1-key commands.
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