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From: clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: I just downloaded StuffIt Classic and...
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Date: 7 Nov 90 21:34:15 GMT
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jlhaferman@l_eld09.icaen.uiowa.edu (Jeff Haferman) writes:
|Correction on my original posting - it installs FOLDERS in the System Folder.
|I don't like this either, but what really gets me is that they are called
|"Help" and "Preferences".  That's really dump.  How about something like
|"StuffIt Help" and "StuffIt" preferences.  Ray Lau must be getting silly
|at the ripe old age of 19.

The generic name is so that if there is already a "Help" folder or a 
"Preferences" folder in your System Folder, the Stuffit Installer will just
stick it's files in the existing folders, rather than cluttering up your 
System Folder with "Stuffit Help" and "Stuffit Preferences" folders in
addition to all your other Help and Preferences folders.

When I installed Stuffit Deluxe, I had already installed Disktop 4.0, which
places a "Preferences" folder in my System Folder.  Stuffit just used that one.

As I understand it, this is the happening, System 7.0-studly way to behave.


chaz

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clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu                                       AOL:Crowbone