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From: dks@ftp.COM (David Shute)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Install vs Copy
Keywords: Installer
Message-ID: <577@ftp.COM>
Date: 23 Feb 89 16:37:02 GMT
Organization: FTP Software Inc., Cambridge, MA
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How do you do, folks:

Perhaps you all can shed some light on the MacDarkness that surrounds me.  I recently got a copy of System 6.0.2 (some things take time) and went to do the
upgrade.  Apple manuals tell me to use the Installer; the disk I got had no
such utility included.  Just for the heck of it I merely dragged the icon off
the floppy and onto the hard drive System file icon.  Hold and below, the
file was updated!

While this move *appears* to have worked, the distributed wisdom (ie the
manuals) indicate it should not have worked.

My ?? is this: why did the copy move work?  What does Installer really do?
How long before my System barfs and dies (undoubtably taking some huge file
of my work with it)?

Thanks in advance for your kind attention.

Dave Shute

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