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Date:	Sun, 25 Jan 2004 18:04:16 PST8
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Warpin reliability

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Steven mentioned

> It's relatively painless to use wic to extra what you
> need from the WarpIn archive.

In regard to a follow-up question

> >What's "wic"?

he answered:

> It's the tool for building and examining WarpIn archives.

Interesting, I hadn't heard of this. Sounds sort of like UNZIP for .WPI's. If that's the case, I would find it a useful
tool.

I am starting to wonder about the reliance many seem to have placed on this new "universal installer." Over a period of
time, I had d/l'd three versions of FAT32.IFS, all in the warpin format. When I finally got around to attempting to install
them, two of these turned out to be corrupt, and so would not install. Of those, I could only re-find one of them online,
and a repeat d/l also turned out to be corrupt, so the problem was not a faulty d/l (which has been extremely rare anyway,
in my experience). As a result, the only version I was able to install was the oldest one, which goes back to early '02. I
haven't had a chance to test it, because the test was to be on USB media, and I'll need to have working USB for that.

Jordan

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