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From: dfisk@hawk.ulowell.edu (David Fisk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Amiga Roadblocks to User Friendliness
Summary: Why not use a Config file?
Keywords: ASSIGNS
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Date: 23 Dec 88 06:14:18 GMT
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As a hard disk user, I've been following this discussion about ways to
do software installations with Assign batch files. Personally I don't
like having to have a lot of assigns that have to be made for all of
my programs to work. What I would like to see is for programs to look
for a configuration file in a certain directory (either current or a
regular assign such as s:) and use that instead of Assigns. This is
currently done by one shareware program I have seen, Access!, which makes
things very neat and tidy. An installation program/script would copy
the program files from the distribution media, to a user specified
directory and then either run the program and have it prompt the user
for configuration info, or create the config file itself. I think that
this is a lot nicer than having someones script/program editing my
startup-sequence.

Any Comments?

Dave...
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| dfisk@hawk.ulowell.edu (David Fisk) |                                   |
| University of Lowell	      	      |  still looking for a good quote...|
| Computer Science Dept. Student      |                                   |
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| dfisk@hawk.ulowell.edu (David Fisk) |                                   |
| University of Lowell	      	      |  still looking for a good quote...|
| Computer Science Dept. Student      |                                   |