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Re: Partitioning a disk with data on it

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From: Alan W. Frame
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 1998 00:00
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Rebecca and Rowland <real-address-in-sig@flurbletigibbet.rhubarb.foobar>
wrote:
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> Well, I went from 7.1 to 7.6, and it took *ages* to re-install clean
> copies of all the various third-party extensions and control panels I
> use, get newer versions (or different extensions in the case of those
> that broke and didn't have newer versions available), clean out all the
> pointless crap that Apple's terminally hopeless installer had dumped in
> my System folder, and so on.

Can I have a quick spleen-vent about fsking stupid comms software
installers that can't be bothered to work out what modem I've got
(or even be sensible enough to ask me) and insist on installing 
a zillion CLLs[1]?

AAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!

There, I feel better now.
Oh bugger, I've just looked in the Printer Descriptions folder....:-(

On that point, why on earth does OT need so many discrete shared
lib files? - Have Apple forgotten what the Res manager does?

rgds, Alan
[1] Including the Apple Modem 2400 for goodness sake!
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From: alan.frame@acm.org (Alan W. Frame)
Subject: Re: Partitioning a disk with data on it
Date: 1998/01/03
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