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In a msg of , James Mckenzie writes to Steve 
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James,
 JM> What was interesting is that I just installed the "latest"
 JM> version of Netscape on my system.  I had to press the "yes" key
 JM> several dozens of times.  Everytime it went to overwrite a file I
 JM> looked to see if it was one of the files reported to have
 JM> problems.  I might not install the "fix" released for Warp 4 for
 JM> now.
Strange!  I had none of that, and I don't remember it ever happening with a 
Netscape upgrade. AFAIR, all I do is click on 'just do it' and it just does. 
I do remember, at least for the newset update, that I wasn't asked for 
confirmation on anything, and many of the filenames whiz by so fast that it's 
impossible to read them quickly enough.
 SM>> Better yet, IMHO, would be for the Netscape/IBM team to tell
 SM>> us upfront what they were going to overwrite (in each and
 SM>> every directory) so the time necessary to repair the damage
 SM>> could at least be minimized.
 JM> I agree with this one totally.  I think that the install program
 JM> should ask if you want to backup any system files that are
 JM> overwritten so that you can back out of the install if problems
 JM> occur.
Seems to me it would be a simple matter for them to include a README that 
listed changed files so one could reclaim them from a tape/floppy backup, 
altho I like your idea MUCH better, particularly for system files.
Perhaps I'm the only one who has asked them about it.  Perhaps I should *not* 
be the only one! :^)
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