Re: Documentation

[Eon Man <eonicman@erols.com>]

Eon Man wrote:
> 
> Robert Krenn wrote:
> 
> > Why go trough all the work of first extracting the files
> > to RAM, and then copy it to some filesystem???
> >
> > I can see some problems arising when you have a 4 MB
> > machine and trying to install emacs or pine :^D
> >

On the PC, when one is installing IE4, a smaller install program is downloaded
first, then it connects online to the nearest download site, then it retrieves
the necessary files.  First it checks to see what available disk space the
user has then informs him/her whether or not additional space is needed.  Then
it proceeds to download the necessary files.  It then decompresses the files
in the temp folder and proceeds to present the user with options like full,
custom installation.  Regardless, some information is stored in memory and
then transfered to the appropriate directory.  I was simply thinking of what
would be easiest if the user wished to back up the installation files on 720k,
1.44m, 2.88m diskettes or 100meg zips.  Obviously, things would have to be
broken down into "chunks" of these sizes.  I figured that since .ST has
replaced Magic Shadow as a standard Atari disk image format, then it would
make sense if the installer could utilize these for future restoring.  The
disk utility could do this and modify the install script to utilize the
resulting disk images.

Peter
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