[Exaggeration Mode One, Please Don't Flame Me]
Ahh, it is so refreshing to find people who live in the Wonderful World of Amiga
and have no concept of the real world of Wintel Computers.
[Exaggeration Mode Off]
It the PC world, many software packages want to reinstall their own custom
variations of common DLL files. It would be like every communications related
package installing their own custom versions of "serial.device". On the Amiga,
this doesn't generally happen, every program install is isolated from others.
Once in awhile an install or errant program on a PC will corrupt a previous
installation because of such constant overlap. The PC world is filled with
hundreds of single points of failure. As a result, the industry norm is to
always reinstall a package when something goes wrong. I hate calling the IT
help desk at the office here because the only thing they know how to ask is "Did
you reinstall the package and see if that helps yet".
So to answer your puzzle, the Wintel industry has brainwashed people into that
way of thinking. Us Amiga people know better.
That is not to say that Amiga software manufacturers are perfect. Every so
often, I will find one with lazy install routines that will install third party
common libraries and devices (like mui.libray or reqlib.library) on top of
whatever else is there without checking versions. They then corrupt any other
program that had a newer version installed. The other program just stops
working one day and a reinstall fixes it.
Lawrence
"Chris Wiles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 05/27/99 05:52:54 AM
> Yes. Been having problems for a few days now. Thought dear old
> Netconnect was the problem, so re-installed it. Same prob. Glad to
This is something that puzzles me more than anything else. I often get calls
from people who say "...so I reinstalled the software...". Why?
Reinstalling makes no difference whatsoever: you reinstall over the same
configs, you are reinstalling the same files and so on.
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