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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re:  What's Wrong with ARP!!!!
Summary: Installation scripts should not overwrite without permission.
Message-ID: <1409@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 11 Jan 91 09:01:40 GMT
References: <2445@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <7434@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Organization: BT Tymnet, San Jose, CA
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In article <7434@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>I've had people mucking around with my system screw me over with that before.

Me too.  When I executed the harddisk-install program for FontWorks, it
wiped out a perfectly good version of arp.library with an obsolete version,
and overwrote C:copy WITHOUT MY PERMISSION.

>NEVER stick anything in C: that's not part of the distribution. It's just
>asking for trouble.	>Peter da Silva.   `-_-'

I agree.  The bogus version of "copy" did not understand "copy clone a b"
which caused various scripts in S: to fail mysteriously.  In this case,
overwriting a CBM-provided command in C: caused damage to my system.
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