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echo: os2prog
to: Martin Pollard
from: Michael Douglass
date: 1994-06-28 19:34:08
subject: C/C++ compiler for OS/2

MP> EB> Hmmmm.... do you have to make all 60 diskettes, or can you cut that
  > EB> number down by cutting options?

MP>I wouldn't know, I haven't gotten my copy yet... but, I'll take the safe
  >route and state my belief (based on Watcom's previous, brain-dead install
  >program) that you'd have to make all 60.

Huh, kinda like OS/2's install program (Selectively install the puzzle
game and go through ALL the disks!)...  Also reminds me of Borland's
install programs (Just installing command-line compilers, oh, that will
be ALL disks please!)...

But unlike Windows--"Oh, you want that, sir?  Why sure, just give me
disk 3 and disk 5.  Thank you."

Moral: Perhaps IBM and Borland and Watcom should learn something from
Microsoft--It's partially the first impression, and the thoughts of
performing a reinstall that makes users like your product... They don't
want to be hassled with tons of disk swapping...  (But then Borland
would just send you a form letter with your name on it stating that you
should purchase the CD-ROM, as this is no longer a problem!  I can just
see the days when a program spans several CD-ROMs!!!)

Michael Douglass
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