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Date:	Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:27:18 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Warpin reliability

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In <4016C3D7.50BD50A6@pacbell.net>, on 01/27/04
at 12:02 PM, "J. R. Fox" said:

>What's wrong with good 'ol Zip archives and a manual install ?

This is fine for small apps. It falls over quickly for larger, more
complex applications.

>I have yet to see
>it make any important contribution to the running of OS/2 | eCS, at least
>for me.

This may be true, but a sample set of one is somewhat meaningless in the
context of overall usefulness.

>Probably the safer thing for downloads would be if all the .WPI stuff was
>distributed inside a Zip.

Many of the current Warpin installs are distributed as EXEs, which has the
same effect. Also, since the WPI format is sufficiently widespread these
days, the text download confusion is no longer an issue for any of the web
sites I use.

Regards,

Steven

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