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From: ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: FASTBACK PLUS
Keywords: backup
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Date: 18 Mar 89 23:25:26 GMT
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While installing Fastback Plus for a friend, I discovered a bit of
very sloppy programming in it.  The installation program modifies
the path statement.  It does not check for previous modification.
If you have to abort the installation, the next go round will
again modify the path, adding the fastback directory.  With a
little luck you run out of environment space.

One would think a professional programmer would know enough to
examine the path (and environment size) before diddling it.