I've lost track of this discussion. But off hand I can't think of any valid reason for unzipping an installer instead of just installing. Unless one had serious security concerns.
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Murray Eisenberg <[email protected]>wrote: > [Once again when I tried to reply, quoting the entire beta digest > message (and then intended to cut out everything irrlevant), Thunderbird > truncated it before the message at issue.] > > I cannot open j701abeta_win.exe as a zip file to unzip it: WinZip says > it's a corrupted zip file and only offers to execute it. > > On 11/9/2010 7:21 AM, [email protected] wrote: > From: bill lam <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Jbeta] how determine > type of installation for beta upgrade? To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; > charset=utf-8 You can find in which folder did you last install , and > then unzip (not execute) the jbeta installer to that folder. ???, 08 ??? > 2010, Murray Eisenberg ?????(?): > > > I was beginning to install the latest jbeta executable under Windows > > > when it asked me what type -- Standard, System, or Custom. > > > > > > Since I already have a j701 beta installed and -- in the absence of > > > having seen a response to an earlier post here about installing an > > > upgrade -- I was going to install over the earlier one. But how do I > > > determine which kind of installation I did for the previous beta? > > > -- > Murray Eisenberg [email protected] > Mathematics & Statistics Dept. > Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) > University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) > 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 > Amherst, MA 01003-9305 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
