Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 13:13:01 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> > I'm afraid you will give up on too many systems this way.
> 
> May be. But on the other hand, once multiple conf's are active,
> autoexec.bat gains a whole new amount of potential complexity.

Right.  IMHO, the challenge of writing a good installer is to deal with 
a substantial part of this complexity, so that only the rare cases are
in need of manual tweaking.

> As might have been guessable from these messages of mine, my conclusion is
> that a reliable install.exe that does change autoexec.bat itself is almost
> certainly impossible to do.

IMHO, Quarterdeck came darn close with their QEMM installer.