On 5 Feb 2002 06:01:09 GMT, Stan Goodman wrote:
>Nope. It turned out that the installation of the new WebBrowser had
>wreaked some unanticipated changed in CONFIG.SYS:
The IWB install has always changed Config.Sys - I guess you didn't notice
before, since you didn't have any other versions last time. ;)
>1) Although making changes in CONFIG.SYS is not unusual, most
>installers that do this have enough sense to see first if there is
>already a statement present that would be superceded by the new one;
I don't remember whether there is an option to not modify Config.Sys...
I think there is, and if not, there probably should be. ;)
>2) If the system was working before without the phrases in PATH and
>LIBPATH, and is working now with them removed, why was it necessary
>for the installation to insert them?
When they are in the path and libpath, you can start the browser from the
command line, from any directory. This is useful (potentially) for things like
Feature Install, should that ever get updated.
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