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From: rsholmes@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Rich Holmes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Stuffit Deluxe: Off on the wrong foot
Message-ID: <1990Oct4.142654.3170@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 4 Oct 90 15:18:32 GMT
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In article <1990Oct3.171529.15907@svc.portal.com> leonardr@svc.portal.com (Leonard Rosenthol) writes:
>	The reason for the installer is NOT so you can't click and drag the
>files, but because the files are compressed in order to save space.   Also,
>there are a lot of different files/folder which need to be in specific places
>(and in different places if you are running System 7.0x) so the Installer
>is supposed to make your life easier.

It's a great idea in theory.

Installer programs have been around for a long time in the MS-DOS world, and 
Ghod knows they need 'em.  When they work, people are happy.  But I sure have
heard lots of BMG about when they don't work... when they fail to cope cor-
rectly with an unusual configuration... whatever... and those comments usually
are followed by, "Why can't it be like it is on the Mac, where you just have
to drag a few files to your hard disk with the mouse?"

Well, now I know how all those MS-DOS users felt.  Now it appears to have been
the system's fault, not the Aladdin installer's (though I note at least 2
other readers experienced the identical disaster), and once I re-installed my
system the installation was easy and painless.  But the point still stands:
if something goes wrong, you have a program going amok over your hard disk,
and good luck finding all the damage it did since it doesn't even tell you
what it's putting where.


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