Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 18:20:18 -0500 (EST) From: Jude Dashiell To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: two problems with opendos install.exe Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk Both of these problems are a direct result of less than adequate intelligence on the part of software developers. 1) It is not helpful to use high ascii graphics for fancy pictures of keys to be pressed. The license acceptance screen contains some of these in critical places, like the key to hit to leave good information alone and go onto the next screen. Of course it's possible I could be wrong about this one since opendos install.exe may not necessarily read previously stored data. 2) In situations of limited disk space where a previous install of opendos has happened before when an upgrade is about to happen, the amount of disk space is not the amount of free disk space. To get install-upgrade-space, install-upgrade-space=free-disk-space+space-used-by-previous-installation. I can understand if a user didn't give permission for older files to be overwritten if opendos were to complain about insufficient space, however install.exe never asked me for permission in the first place. The installation will not be impossible, it will take longer than should have been necessary though because of failures along these lines. Jude