Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!oliveb!amdahl!kim From: kim@uts.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: S/W Installation methodology Message-ID: Date: 19 Dec 88 20:26:57 GMT Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Lines: 31 [ "All sweet things have one thing in common ... a tendency to make you sick." ] [ --Soolin ] Posted for a co-worker ... On S/W installation methodology, Mike Robinson writes: As I read the discussion about complicated software installation procedures and how to simplify them, I would love to say "Write a REXX program to do it." That's how it's done in the VM/CMS world, where nearly every vendor's installation sequence boils down to "Unload the first file from this tape and run it." In order for this sort of thing to happen in the Amiga community, we must be able to PRESUME that Rexx will be available on the computer. For this to be true, Commodore must license REXX and supply it with every Amiga sold -- i.e. with AmigaDos 1.4. I strongly believe that this should be done. (And I won't be any richer because of it.) /mr/ -- UUCP: kim@amdahl.amdahl.com or: {sun,decwrl,hplabs,pyramid,uunet,oliveb,ames}!amdahl!kim DDD: 408-746-8462 USPS: Amdahl Corp. M/S 249, 1250 E. Arques Av, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 BIX: kdevaughn GEnie: K.DEVAUGHN CIS: 76535,25