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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FULLY INTERACTIVE SCRIPTS (A Tutorial)
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Date: 8 May 88 07:39:13 GMT
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In article <41893UH2@PSUVM> UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes:
|It occurs to me that there should be a standard for software installation,
|following the usual arguments in favor of a standard user interface.

That's definitely a good point, and one of the reasons of my posting was to
have others comment on it.  So far the only thing that I have seen is one
article in AmigaMail (by Mike Colligon?) that indicated how to move A-Talk Plus
and DPaint to a hard disk, and promoted the use of XICON for building "install"
programs.  When I tried to implement such a scheme, I quickly found out that
with current tools I could NOT be able to build a "fully interactive" install
program.  With GETLINE now I can.  Any comments would be appreciated.
(and of course used in my owm products :-)

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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