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- From: Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com>
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- Subject: Re: Installers
- Date: 11 Mar 1996 12:01:06 -0700
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- In-reply-to: Fred Salerno's message of Fri, 8 Mar 1996 19:06:17 -0500 (EST)
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- >>>>> "Fred" == Fred Salerno <salernof@gate.net> writes:
- In article <Pine.A32.3.91.960308190508.53414B-100000@hopi.gate.net> Fred Salerno <salernof@gate.net> writes:
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- Fred> Did you figure out why the installers don't seem to work on
- Fred> Executor? it seems kinda wierd that they dont work.
-
- I think that "most" installers *do* work, unfortunately the installer
- for Word 5 doesn't, and that's fairly popular. I know there are some
- others that don't work as well, but Word 5 is the one that bites us
- the most.
-
- Installers based on Stuffit all should work.
- Smaller Installer (based on Compact Pro) should work.
- VISE based installers should work.
-
- There are two major problems.
-
- The first problem is that at one time Apple's Installer (which is what
- Word 5 uses, for instance) did some bad things, like call context
- dependent subroutines that looked back on the stack to determine from
- where they had been called. That installer was used by a number of
- programs and all of them had trouble not only under Executor, but also
- under Apple's own Macintosh Applications Environment (MAE) version 1
- (I think they've fixed it).
-
- The second problem is that Executor isn't as clever about remembering
- the contents of disks that have already been ejected as MacOS is, so
- installers that count on the ability to have an ejected volume still
- on-line will not work under Executor. After Executor 2 ships we'll
- devote some time to solving this problem.
-
- Fred> I know Self-Extracting Archives work under Executor.
-
- Fred> I know that some installers dont work on the PPC (like Works
- Fred> 3.0).
-
- I'm not sure what the problem is there. We'll have to look at it
- sometime.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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