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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: What I really, really, really want in OS/2
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.172744.18478@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1993Jan23.111604.14895@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:27:44 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan23.111604.14895@donau.et.tudelft.nl> linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee) writes:
- >Well, there are a lot of things of course, but most notably I want
- >the install procedure to be able to have paths specified, especially
- >for where to put the applets and WINOS2.
- >Is there anyone else who finds this a good thing? I do, because I
- >have reserved (as many) a special partition for the system, and
- >I do want it to be system only. Mainly because it is not likely to
- >grow or shrink regularly. Having WINOS2 on that partition is a pain
- >because it isn't at all static. Adding TT fonts makes it grow, adding
- >programs makes it grow, programs make it grow, etc.
- >Of course I can install it and then move it, but that would require
- >the space to be their in the first place, when I really want to keep
- >it down as much as possible.
- >So, anyone with me on this?
-
- Agreed. Selective Install should be improved. I would also like
- Selective Install to handle the Win-OS/2 applets, so I can pick and
- choose among those as well.
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