Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!tosh!starta From: starta@tosh.UUCP (John Starta) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: StuffIt Deluxe Installer from Hell! Keywords: stuffit deluxe installer why Message-ID: Date: 28 Dec 90 20:43:16 GMT References: <1990Dec28.164601.10642@rodan.acs.syr.edu> Reply-To: tosh!starta@asuvax.eas.asu.edu (John Starta) Distribution: usa Organization: Before Computing Inc., Phoenix, AZ Lines: 21 rsholmes@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Rich Holmes) writes: > (BY THE WAY, ALADDIN, WHY DID YOU GIVE THOSE FOLDERS SUCH HELPFUL NAMES AS > "HELP" OR WHATEVER? DIDN'T YOU EVEN CONSIDER SOMETHING LIKE "STUFFIT DELUXE > HELP"??) Generic folder names were used so that all of Aladdin's products can share similar resources (the Help files in this example, but the same is true of the Optimizers and so on) and therefore save disk space and System Folder landscape. Classic, Deluxe, Shortcut, Magic Menu, the QuicKeys 2 Extensions and the MicroPhone II XCMDs all take advantage of this. You are welcome to move things around, but why waste disk space with duplicate files just because you don't like the name of the folders? John -- John A. Starta Internet: tosh!starta@asuvax.eas.asu.edu Software Visionary UUCP: ncar!noao!asuvax!tosh!starta AOL: AFA John; CompuServe: 71520,3556