Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!sequent!mntgfx!gssc!bradd
From: bradd@gssc.UUCP (Brad Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: WARNING for MASM 5.1 runme install program
Message-ID: <5673@gssc.UUCP>
Date: 23 Apr 88 01:19:29 GMT
References: <25@necbsd.NEC.COM>
Reply-To: bradd@gssc.UUCP (Brad Davis)
Organization: Graphic Software Systems, Beaverton Or
Lines: 28
Keywords: MSC, Microsoft
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	  Oops - can't use that anymore.  Please subsitute CL /c.  :-)
Summary: MSC 5.1 setup isn't perfect either

In article <25@necbsd.NEC.COM> gay@necbsd.NEC.COM (John Gay) writes:
>
>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 ...
[details of garbage and trashed hard disk deleted]

   I wonder if this SETUP could be related to the SETUP on MSC 5.1, which
is also capable of "innovative" behavior...

   When installing Microsoft C 5.1 recently, I was somewhat annoyed to have
SETUP hang right away.  It worked fine on several AT-klones (including a 386)
but on my true-blue IBM AT, SETUP.EXE was swift and certain death.

   It turned out that SETUP was "objecting" to the QuadEGA+ card I was
using.  The other EGA's that I tried (and other adapters) worked fine.

   Why do they need to play such sleazy tricks in a glorified batch file?

   Brad Davis

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