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Re: Microsoft Installer ate my System

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From: Andy Seymour
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:11
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In article <29847@castle.ed.ac.uk> ngse18@castle.ed.ac.uk (J R Evans) writes:
> 
> 	SetFlameTarget(Microsoft);
> 	theFlame = BeginFlame();
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What a wonderful way to begin!! Three, no make that, four cheers!!!!

> 
> After taking the better part of an hour's worth of disk shuffling and
> decompaction,

> These folks can't even label the
> disks in a sensible order -- I have to insert them in the order
> 2 - 1 - 5 - 6 - 3 - 4 !!  And why do I have to spend half an hour waiting
> for these overgrown shibboleths to unpack themselves --

Here is something that I ran into by accident (kinda)...
I found that if you do a disk copy (insert the disk into floppy drive,
drag the floppy icon on to HD) to HD all in the same folder, and then run
the installer, you can save alot of time and disk swapping... BTW I also
run a SE (vintage 1986,first and only owner, very high mileage) at home...

As for the installer 'playing' with the System folder...

MS, 
You have already shown us what you can do with DOS (Damaged Operating
System), please do not do it to the Macintosh!!!!!!

My System folder is mine!!!!! Not yours!!

If you are going to do "things" to the system, could you please be polite
enough to give the user a report?!?! Aldus does it!! Why can't you!!

Russ,
Thanks for the smile this morning!! and I hope that you are back up and
running!!

There are a few of us on this side of the puddle that have simular feelings!!

PsyBeast
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From: psybeast@dracut.keps.com (Andy Seymour)
Subject: Re: Microsoft Installer ate my System
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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:11:24 GMT