Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 13:31:20 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: Kbwms AT aol DOT com cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: LBInstDJ In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 Kbwms AT aol DOT com wrote: > > IMHO, Quarterdeck came darn close with their QEMM installer. > > Please explain `darn close'. ``Very close'' was my intent. Their installer detects batch files and programs invoked from AUTOEXEC.BAT, and asks the user whether or not to invoke them. It also examines all batch files that are CALLed or invoked directly, because they might CALL or invoke others. It then prepares a modified AUTOEXEC.BAT (not before it backs up the original), and reboots. The modified AUTOEXEC.BAT invokes a program at the end which analyses the results and does whatever is appropriate, which is either tell the user "You are done" and ask them whether they want to accept the last configuration, or change AUTOEXEC.BAT some more and reboot again. From my experience, their rate of failure is very low, although they turn on features that can be quite dangerous. That's my idea of ``darn close''.