From: Kbwms AT aol DOT com
Message-ID: <eb1d5bf0.2444f77c@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 15:39:40 EDT
Subject: Re: LBInstDJ
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
CC: broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
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Dear Eli Zaretskii,

On 04-13-99 at 06:11:58 EST you wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
>
> > 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.
>

Certainly, there are enough gotchas out there to make it essential that the
proposed product be subject to rigorous testing and dedicated peer reviews.
(A dedicated peer review is made by someone who has something at stake in
the outcome.)

> IMHO, Quarterdeck came darn close with their QEMM installer.


Please explain `darn close'.  It is the `darn close' occurrence that sounds
like the `show stopper'.



K.B. Williams