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Article #128Re: This is where you can get Win '95 Service Pack 1
From: Tom Simpson
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 00:00
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 00:00
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In article <4h5opk$s5n@firebrick.mindspring.com>, draper@mindspring.com says... > >David Valentine <davev@nrel.colostate.edu> wrote: > >>Worldwide Internet Retrieval� wrote: >>> >>> The Win '95 Service Pack is actually a 14 disk program (a little over 17MB) >>> comprising the following files: No. The service pack comes in two forms. One is a bug fic - the setup.exe file you can download. The other contains updates files and reference information for professionals to use and is a waste of 14 disks if all you want to do is fix the bugs in win95 and update some of the driver info. >>> >>> What kind of update could possibly take more disks than >>the original OS??? Easy - an update which just patches the holes in the OS rather than rewriting files which work anyway. >My understanding is that the patch is on the initial setup.exe disk. >The remaining disks represent the entire os with the new patch. >Anyone verify this? I can verify that this is not the case. Hope this helps clear up the confusion Tom Simpson Tom Simpson.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 10dc12,8016b2b77f95c333 X-Google-Attributes: gid10dc12,public X-Google-Thread: 1102f1,8016b2b77f95c333 X-Google-Attributes: gid1102f1,public X-Google-Thread: 10f8d1,8016b2b77f95c333 X-Google-Attributes: gid10f8d1,public X-Google-Thread: 104cb0,8016b2b77f95c333 X-Google-Attributes: gid104cb0,public X-Google-Thread: 10bdcf,8016b2b77f95c333 X-Google-Attributes: gid10bdcf,public X-Google-Thread: 10b91a,8016b2b77f95c333 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b91a,public X-Google-Thread: 1064f1,8016b2b77f95c333 X-Google-Attributes: gid1064f1,public From: thomas_s@Postoffice.SandyBay.utas.edu.au (Tom Simpson) Subject: Re: This is where you can get Win '95 Service Pack 1 Date: 1996/03/01 Message-ID: <4h6758$t33@franklin.its.utas.edu.au> X-Deja-AN: 141698175 references: <3122E332.399B@student.uq.edu.au> <312358C5.193@maf.mobile.al.us> <3124a593.2165793@news.ust.hk> <4g4i7o$r9t@sullivan.ucc.hull.ac.uk> <31349850.1234362@news.jaring.my> <4h2i4g$btv@cabernet.niagara.com> <3135DFF0.494E@nrel.colostate.edu> <4h5opk$s5n@firebrick.mindspring.com> content-type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 organization: University of Tasmania, Australia. mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: uq.general,uq.dialin,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,trumpet.questions,uq.general,bne.forsale,alt.winsock,alt.www.hotjava,comp.infosystems.www.misc,comp.infosystems.www.browsers.misc,comp.infosystems.www.browsers.ms-windows,bne.general,alt.chinese.computing,hk.comp.chinese,chinese.comp.software,hk.comp.pc,tw.bbs.comp.mswindows.win95,tw.bbs.comp.mswindows.nt,tw.bbs.comp.mswindows,tw.bbs.comp.software,tw.bbs.comp.winsock,tw.bbs.comp.chinese