On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, DIAMOND JEFF wrote:
> Brian Mathis wrote:
> > Hmm, whenever I install something, it always asks me who to install for.
> >
> > You check for the instaide.dll in your installer. If it's not there, you
> > install it yourself. You ship your installer with the dll.
>
> Actually, the Palm Install doesn't seem to have all the information it
> needs.
> Occasionally, I've had COLOSSAL disasters, because on the install tool I
> accidentally selected a different user than the Palm I was actually
> syncing. At no part of the install did it verify that it was installing
> to a Palm with a different user name than I selected, with the result
> that after a painful hour of slow syncing (cancel didn't work), my Palm
> IIIxe was completely filled up with all my color OS 3.5 programs. :(
>
> I spent the next 20 minutes deleting all the files one at a time...
>
> Maybe this is a feature alm could add to future versions of the Install
> tool.
I'm confused. If you tell the install tool to install to a particular
user, how exactly is it supposed to know that you chose the wrong one?
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Brian Mathis
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