Re: OS/2 Wish List

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From: Joe Morris
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:59

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If it hasn't already been requested: a decent routine to handle loading
of files from the distribution diskettes after the initial installation
is complete.

Even Microsoft doesn't make you insert disks which are unnecessary for
the requested configuration change.  The way that OS/2 works when 
changing the system configuration is even worse than the old Microsoft
Word installer which, if you selected several printer drivers, made you
play the nimble fingered floppy flipper: at least each time you inserted
a disk the setup program actually needed something from that disk.  OS/2
setup seems to want to see every disk just on the off chance that it might
contain something useful.

And similar comments apply to the installation of a new printer: you must
guess which printer driver disk contains the files for the printer you
want to install.

I don't have the 2.1 beta; possibly (hopefully) this has changed...please?

Joe Morris / MITRE

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