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From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FULLY INTERACTIVE SCRIPTS (A Tutorial)
Message-ID: <9204@g.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 9 May 88 15:51:55 GMT
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Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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YES!  It's a whole lot more convenient to have a simple standard way
for installing software.  (I'm speaking as a long time SA on Unix machines,
I'm very familiar with installing software by hand).

One of the nicer things on Unix PC's is the software installation.  An
"installable floppy" is a floppy(ies) that have a cpio archive on it/them,
with a few standard files in the cpio archive.  (Size, Install, and
Uninstall are the most important, there are others.)  Size is a simple
indication of how much space is required for the installation.  Install
is the script used to install all the files wherever they need to go,
Uninstall is stored away and used later when you want to remove the
software.

I've got a real long description of it available if anybody wants to
see it (or if you have access to The STORE!, it's INSTALL.DOC).

The point that I want to make is to think a little about the kinds
of things you want to do in relation to installing/removing software.
It's *real*convenient* to be able to do something like click on an
icon to do either of the tasks.  (installing/removing/installing updates).
Having such a standard would go a long way towards being able to
sell the machines to the less sophisticated.


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