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From: doug-merritt@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FULLY INTERACTIVE SCRIPTS (A Tutorial)
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Date: 16 May 88 19:20:08 GMT
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Marco Papa writes:
>The distribution license is not the point.  PIPE: requires the PIPE: entry to
>be on the Mountlist, otherwise mount PIPE: will fail.  I cannot assume that
>the user will have it, and changing a MountList MUST be done with an EDITOR.
>That's TOO MUCH WORK for the "average" user. The point is that the installation
>MUST be run from workbench, with click and answering questions ONLY.

Actually, you can automate this. Write a program that does a quick scan
of Mountlist for "pipe", and if not found, append the appropriate entry
to it, and copy pipe.device to the appropriate disk (all with user prompts
to ask if it's ok to do this, of course).

	Doug Merritt