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- From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Wish List
- Message-ID: <jcmorris.728067551@mwunix>
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- Organization: The MITRE Corporation
- References: <1993Jan23.233249.15201@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:59:11 GMT
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- If it hasn't already been requested: a decent routine to handle loading
- of files from the distribution diskettes after the initial installation
- is complete.
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- Even Microsoft doesn't make you insert disks which are unnecessary for
- the requested configuration change. The way that OS/2 works when
- changing the system configuration is even worse than the old Microsoft
- Word installer which, if you selected several printer drivers, made you
- play the nimble fingered floppy flipper: at least each time you inserted
- a disk the setup program actually needed something from that disk. OS/2
- setup seems to want to see every disk just on the off chance that it might
- contain something useful.
-
- And similar comments apply to the installation of a new printer: you must
- guess which printer driver disk contains the files for the printer you
- want to install.
-
- I don't have the 2.1 beta; possibly (hopefully) this has changed...please?
-
- Joe Morris / MITRE
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