From:	mhaley99 AT homemail DOT com (Matthew Haley)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Installing DJGPP
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On Sun, 8 Aug 1999 14:16:31 +0300 (IDT), Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>
>their needs dictate.  Users need to excercise some minimal judgement
>and common sense when they see such problems.
>
>(Why is it that people get so picky about identical files overwriting
>each other in the DJGPP archives?  This happens all the time when a
>typical Windows program is installed and overwrites several system
>DLLs, but nobody complains. ;-)

Probably because some (most?) of the time the user is never aware of
DLLs being overwritten. Case in point, install RealPlayer 5.0 on Win
3.11 and then uninstall it, Netscape will be broken after that along
with a couple other programs possibly. RealPlayer deletes a DLL
required by other programs JUST because it installed it over the
existing one! That's enough for me to never install RealPlayer again
:), or at least not without making a listing of my drive before and
after and backing up my DLLs.

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