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Acornet Upgrader Copyright 1996 Colin Hogben
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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
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(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
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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