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RE: Documentation
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eon Man [mailto:eonicman@erols.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 06, 1998 12:23 AM
> To: mint@atari.archive.umich.edu
> Subject: Re: Documentation
>
>
> Eon Man wrote:
> 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.
I will not go into all the downpart of Micro$ofts way of
installing things, or the bandwidth needed to do in one mans
lifetime.
Anyway I don't think it's a good idea to have .ST images.
It's a ATARI only format (AFAIK!), I MUST have a Atari
to check if there is corrupted files after I downloaded
the file. I would guess that many of us are using a faster
connection at work or school, and want to test the
downloads before we go trough the hazzle of copying it
to disks and transporting it home to our Ataris, right?
//Robert
Daltek Vision http://www.daltekvision.se
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