Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 10:21:10 -0400
From: RUBEN FIGUEROA
To: TRACY FRANKLIN
Subject: Nav installer 
Newsgroups: win.navigator
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-> Hello Shane,
-> I still have not tested the new installer. What is the status of it?
-> Will it work with the custom version yet?

It's worked with custom stuff since I first put it into gamma.  It's
just the creation of the custom stuff on our bbs that isn't completely
compatible with the new installer.  You must already have a custom nav
installed, copy the wccustom.dll, ini and exe into the install directory
(of the new installer) and boom, you have a custom installer.

-> I don't think I made myself clear about it being user friendly. The
-> installation of WcNav is user friendly as long as it works. In
-> the past many times you had to jump through hoops getting it
-> installed. It has caused quite a few illegal operations in 95/98
-> conflicting with other systray items. Again this is the old one. Getting
-> a current browser (MSIE 5) configured to work with it is not at all a
-> user friendly  operation.

The new installer doesn't have the problems that the old one had.
However, using browsers with the software is a seperate issue from the
installer.  The problem exists when you dial in with the navigator and
use a 32bit browser, and the virtual winsock support.  This mix doesn't
work all that well.  In this case, wcPPP is a better solution.

-> WcNav itself has a lot of work needed on it as well. The message
-> client especially. I really don't know what your plans are for the users
-> interface for WINS 2000. I wish I did so I would know which way to
-> leap. Right now I am thinking of just using WcPPP and burning IE5 with
-> outlook on the cd's and ditching suport for the nav all together.

We are looking at a very large rewrite of wcnav for wins2000.



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