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From: skank@iastate.edu (Skank George L)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: How to improve Workbench 2.0!
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.224541.22550@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 91 22:45:41 GMT
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In article <18a2e75c.ARN2927@prolix.ccadfa.oz.au> ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au!prolix!dac@munnari.OZ.AU writes:
>In article <5Juuw4w163w@kennels.actrix.gen.nz>, Sleeping Beagle writes:
>
>> huebner@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Robert E. Huebner) writes:
>> 
>>> Overall I've noticed install procedures have been maturing rapidly in most
>>> software.  Developers are catching on.
>
>How difficult is it to ASK for information from a user, and act upon the
>response?
>
>When I purchased M2Sprint Modula 2 (by Martin Taillefer), it came with an
>install program that modified one's startup-sequence, gave you full control
>over which drive, partition, and directory you wanted to place the environment
>on, had large, medium and small memory models catered for (deciding whether to
>configure the environment to load all the include, link and symbol files into
>a RAD:  disk, or merely the compiler and editor, or nothing at all), and did
>it all neatly and effectively, with a fully intuitionized interface, in a mere
>19K file.

[verbose Windows 3.0 installation (and appropriate flames deleted)]

     Since Excellence 2.0 was what sparked this thread I have to jump in and
say that Excellence's installation procedure is (as was previously stated)
*very* user friendly and allows the user complete control over all paths.
I also have Lattice C version 5.10(?) and must say that it also installed
itself (all 6 disks) very nicely on my A3000.  I did have to create an alias
for dh0: (granted not so user friendly), but the installation procedure went
smoothly afterward.  For those of you who would argue that that is not
something that a new user would think to do, well, I was a new user when I
did it, having only received my A3000 the week before.
					--George
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George L. Skank			|
skank@iastate.edu		|Fast cars, fast women, fast computers...
Senior, Electrical Engineering	|Not necessarily in that order