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Subject: Re:  What's so great about INSTALLER?
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Date: 6 Aug 90 12:16:00 GMT
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What I wish is that installer was a bit smarter.

For instance, I would like it to at least have an option of telling me
what is installed on the disk that I am about to update.  It would also
be useful to tell me which items are 'out of date' (either by date or
perhaps by a checksum on the items).  I am more than willing to wait for
these activities to take place.

Another useful feature - perhaps critical if GS/OS is ever updated again,
would be the ability to maintain on a single hard disk multiple versions
of the OS.  Perhaps that ability is already there - I don't have a
HD yet, but can see where having a lot of software which depends on a
particular version of an OS could be a problem.
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