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Re: StuffIt Deluxe Installer from Hell!

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From: Garance Drosehn
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 1990 20:43
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In article <40029@nigel.ee.udel.edu> johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu writes:
> In article <QRP^Y!*@rpi.edu>, 
              Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu (Garance Drosehn) writes...
> >Yes indeed.  My theory is that the expert option of the installer 
simply 
> >gets confused about what it is doing.  I ended up installing everything 
> >and then deleting the few files I didn't want.  I didn't have Stuffit 
> >Classic on the drive though (I assume you mean the new 1.6 version, not 
> >the earlier 1.5.1 version).
> 
> Actually, the greater problem was with the "standard" install option, 
which
> is what was so shocking -- this is supposed to be the recommended method.
> However, I ran into 'folders from hell' with the expert install as well.

Hmm.  What I said was what I meant, for my case at least.  I tried to use 
the expert install option first (two times, selecting different pieces), 
and ran into different problems each time.  I gave up on that and did the 
standard install and everything worked fine.

It may be that the scripts I used (back in July or August) were different 
than the scripts you have in your current version.  While I already had a 
"Preferences" folder from other applications, for instance, I did not get 
any dialog about it finding the folder.  It did put it's own file in that 
folder too (when I used the standard option).

Hopefully the scripts in version 2.0 will be better behaved!

Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu
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Subject: Re: StuffIt Deluxe Installer from Hell!
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