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- Subject: Re: OS of the future....RFD about configuration
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- From: gershon@husc11.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon)
- Date: 6 Jan 93 22:11:09 GMT
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- dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
- >>How does Macintosh doit. The UNIX rc file system while similar to config.sys
- >>does split the tasks among different files. (rc.net rc.local rc.boot).
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- >What would you prefer, instead of config.sys.
- >--
- > |) David Charlap | .signature confiscated by FBI due to
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- I think the Unix idea of splitting the job up among several files
- is a good one.
-
- I too like the idea of a config.sys file that can be editted with a text
- editor. The problem is not the fact that config.sys exists. The problem
- is that there is no standard installation routine. I have proposed this
- before on this group: OS/2 needs some standard install utility that will
- read an install script provided by an app and do the appropriate installation.
- This utility would manage all changes to config.sys, as well as provide the
- ability to read the install script and use it to UNinstall the app. I think
- this utility would make life easier on everyone: users wouldn't have to worry
- so much about installation (and would get a common install procedure for all
- apps) which would become much easier; developers wouldn't have to waste time
- and effort creating install utilities of their own. Config.sys and the
- install scripts would still be text-editable, but you wouldn't have to
- see them if you didn't want to. (this utility could also handle allocation
- of resources... e.g., if I want to temporarily assign my parallel port
- to LapLink for OS/2 (if they ever write it) instead of my printer, I could
- go through this util. (by the way, how would I do this now?))
-
- --Ethan Gershon
- gershon@husc.harvard.edu
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