From: mhaley99 AT homemail DOT com (Matthew Haley) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Installing DJGPP Message-ID: <37adb9e2.79539254@news.uswest.net> References: X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/16.235 Lines: 22 Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 17:21:40 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.181.129.51 X-Trace: news.uswest.net 934132861 209.181.129.51 (Sun, 08 Aug 1999 12:21:01 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 12:21:01 CDT Organization: U S WEST Interprise To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Sun, 8 Aug 1999 14:16:31 +0300 (IDT), Eli Zaretskii 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.