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From: gay@necbsd.NEC.COM (John Gay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: WARNING for MASM 5.1 runme install program
Keywords: MASM, Microsoft
Message-ID: <25@necbsd.NEC.COM>
Date: 15 Apr 88 22:39:46 GMT
Organization: NEC America Inc.
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I would like to warn anyone that has or is about to 
receive the update of Microsoft MASM 5.1.  Do not
use the install program included on the main disk.
I ran this program to install MASM 5.1 and accessories
on my hard disk drive D:.  Well today (1 day later)
I discovered a new hidden directory on drive C: (yes C:)
with the name DELETED.  This directory contained the files
DELETED.000 and INDEX.  The directory was also three levels
underneath some other directories.  The file DELETED.000 contained
another file that I had been working on previously (but not for
a couple of days).  My file was apparantly not hurt, just a little
scary for me.  The file INDEX seemed to be the directory
structure that MASM was installed with.  I found out about this quite
accidently by running a disk optimizer that reported there was 1 hidden
directory.
A friend that has also tried to install MASM 5.1 with the setup program
has come across a similar experience, except that the program installed
some of MASM's files in the wrong places and corrupted some of his
executables.  Those corrupted include (but probably are not limited to)
lib.exe and make.exe.
Both computers are NEC APC IV's (286 clone at 10Mhz) if this makes any
difference.

  What ever happened to the simple installation program copy a:*.* c: ???

Disclaimer: These views, or any other crazy ideas (unless money can be
            made off of them), certainly are not the views of my employer.

		John M. Gay (with no fancy stuff at the end)



If anyone else has had similar experiences then I would like to here
about them.