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Article #6807Re: How the System Installer Works (Important)
From: Roland Mansson
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 1991 16:02
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 1991 16:02
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In article <87@sierra.STANFORD.EDU> siegman@sierra.STANFORD.EDU (siegman) writes:
>Reasonable arguments (and as I said, I'm NOT an expert on this). But:
>
>1) Installer could SAY what it's doing; it could print a log
>("Replaced MUNG resource with updated value"), so you'd know what it
>had, and had not, done.
>
I really support this idea. It is very non-macish, but it would be very
useful for those of us who have to know what is happening. It's not very
convinient to have to run MPW's rezequal...
Of course this should feature should be off by default. I don't care if it
is supported feature of the installer or not, just go ahead and do it!
--
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!lth.se!newsuser From: roland@dna.lth.se (Roland Mansson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: How the System Installer Works (Important) Keywords: Installer Message-ID: <1991Jan18.160254.18928@lth.se> Date: 18 Jan 91 16:02:54 GMT References: <85@sierra.STANFORD.EDU> <1991Jan16.235950.16515@parc.xerox.com> <87@sierra.STANFORD.EDU> Sender: newsuser@lth.se (LTH network news server) Distribution: comp.sys.mac.apps Organization: Lund University Computing Center, Sweden Lines: 18