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- From: me90plb@brunel.ac.uk (Paul L Barnfather)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Wish List
- Message-ID: <C1KL3s.Fr@brunel.ac.uk>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 15:16:38 GMT
- References: <jcmorris.728067551@mwunix>
- Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
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- Joe Morris (jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org) wrote:
- : 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.
-
- : 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
-
- No, it hasn't...
-
- Paul.
-