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- Acornet Upgrader Copyright 1996 Colin Hogben
- ================
- Version 1.00, 12 Oct 1996
-
- This application is intended to allow you to upgrade the various applications
- within your Acornet suite, before they are made available as part of an
- "official" Acornet upgrade. Using this application is preferable to simply
- copying a new version over the old one for two reasons:
-
- (a) The Acornet Upgrader "knows" about the applications and avoids
- overwriting any files within an application which contain your configuration
- and preferences. Thus you should not need to reconfigure the application
- following an upgrade.
-
- (b) If any files are overwritten by the upgrade, the previous versions are
- saved within a directory !Acornet.Old.[datestamp] where [datestamp] is a
- string of digits representing the date and time you ran the upgrader. So,
- even if something goes wrong with the upgrade process, you ought to be able
- to restore the status quo without too much trouble - provided you know what
- you are doing.
-
- Caveats
- -------
- (1) Obviously, I'm not psychic and have no way of knowing how the various
- software authors may change the internal structure of their applications in
- the future, invalidating the assumptions that have been made by this
- upgrader. Hence your use of this facility is entirely at your own risk.
-
- (2) Because the old versions of files are saved, an increasing amount of disk
- space will be consumed by applying upgrades. When you are happy that an
- upgrade has been successful, you can simply delete !Acornet.Old and
- everything within it.
-
- Terms and Conditions
- --------------------
- You are free to use the code contained in this application for any non-profit
- purpose, provided you credit the original author (me), document any changes
- and apply the same conditions.
-
- --
- Colin Hogben,
- acornet@nyphot.demon.co.uk
-