Mail Archives: opendos/1997/03/23/15:02:52
> The smart install program now makes a temp dir, and unzips DOOM
> into it (first checking to see if there is enough disk space,
> etc...). Then, it displays a list of executable files found in
> the archive. From this, you can either run one of the
> executables (INSTALL.BAT) or view text files via the built in
> file viewer. Since the DOOM Install program will want to pick
> C:\DOOM as it's default, the smart install program should display
> a message such as:
>
> The program you have chosen to install is an older program
> which predates the DOS file system standard. As a
> result, this Smart Install program cannot install it
> automatically for you. Therefore you must decide which
> executable file is the installer for this program. Such
> install programs are usually named something like:
> INSTALL.EXE, INSTALL.BAT, SETUP.EXE, etc... If you are unsure
> which file to execute then you can use Smart Installs built in
> file browser to view the text files that come with the program
> you are trying to install. Look for a file called
> something like README.TXT, README.1ST, READ.ME, HELP.TXT,
> MANUAL.DOC, MANUAL.TXT, or some other file.
>
> Although you are free to install programs wherever you like on
> your hard disk, your computer will be more organized and will
> comply with the new DOS file system standard if you install
> this piece of software into it's own subdirectory off of the
> directory: C:\GAMES. So when the actual install program asks
> you where to install, pick: C:\GAMES\GAMENAME
That is a lot of text to appear, we should try and keep it down, 'cos I for
one have the tendency to not read text which is presented to me in an error
kinda way, which is larger than 10 rows.
We should alos keep away from using cryptic error messeages like: OPM
fault: 13c and then return to the command prompt, without any reference.
Yeep
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