Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!amdahl!key!jsp From: jsp@key.COM (James Preston) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: I just downloaded StuffIt Classic and... Keywords: stuffit classic compactor Message-ID: <2248@key.COM> Date: 13 Nov 90 01:42:52 GMT References: <2780@esquire.dpw.com> <2787@esquire.dpw.com> <1990Nov7.101621@hari.Viewlogic.COM> Reply-To: jsp@penguin.key.COM (James Preston) Distribution: na Organization: Key Computer Laboratories, Fremont Lines: 31 In article <1990Nov7.101621@hari.Viewlogic.COM> peter@hari.Viewlogic.COM (Peter Colby) writes: >In article <2787@esquire.dpw.com>, baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve >Baumgarten) writes: >|> Because I don't want to keep the installer around after I've >installed >|> it (it does take up another 400K or thereabouts). > >Why not keep it around on a spare disk (I mean you DO keep "backup >copies" >of your software, right?. Peter, you remind me of that old joke where the guy goes to the doctor and says, "Doc, it hurts when I do this." And the doctor replies, "Then don't do that!" I hope this doesn't sound like a flame, but you've really hit one of my pet peeves here. All Steve is saying is that in his world, with the way he is used to doing things, the installer is inconvenient. You are trying to tell him that if he only did things your way, he wouldn't have a problem. That's not really very helpful. I mean, you're telling him that keeping the installer around on a floppy "should" be no problem. But maybe the guy has a tape backup onto which he regularly dumps his hard disc, and he keeps on his hard disc only that which he needs. In that case, having to keep the stuffit installer around means either wasting space on the hard disc, or changing his backup startegy to keep this ONE thing on a floppy. The point is not that there exists a solution to his problem, the point is that he is the one who gets to decide if something is inconvenient or not FOR HIM. --James Preston