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Date:	Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:02:40 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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> >I am starting to wonder about the reliance many seem to have placed on
> >this new "universal installer."

Steven replied:

> It's either that or use some non-standard roll your own tool or an
> unsupported tool with known defects that will never get fixed.

What's wrong with good 'ol Zip archives and a manual install ? In theory,
the Warpin install database is a good idea, but I have yet to see it make
any important contribution to the running of OS/2 | eCS, at least for me.

> >When I finally got
> >around to attempting to install them, two of these turned out to be
> >corrupt, and so would not install.
>
> It's hard to know which end is responsible for the error without some sort
> of description of what you used to do the download and how you invoked the
> download.
>
> The only downside to the wpi format, IMO, is that not all servers are
> correctly configured to treat the wpi format as binary. This can be a
> problem when using older browsers that have defects in their MIME type
> handling.

Good point. This far after the fact, I couldn't tell you which .WPI's I d/l'd
with 4.61, and which with v. 1.2 or later Mozilla. Maybe there is one of the
later FAT32.IFS on the last SCOUG cd . . . ?

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

Jordan

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