Bat Lang wrote in a message to All:

 BL> Recently down the filebone came a new version of UniMaint. 
 BL> Unfortunately, it was distributed as a  selfex archive. 
 BL> Since it is 2.4Mb+, and has very skimpy text material in the 
 BL> archive, there is no way to determine what I want to know, 
 BL> short of installing it 

I just *hate* it when they do that...

 BL> I have absolutely NO knowledge of this app, so I am wondering 
 BL> if someone familiar with it can answer the following:

 BL> What is the basic function of this pgm?
 BL> Who might be interested in it? (Prog'r vs user, etc)
 BL> If you use it, why?
 BL> What does it do for you?
 BL> Cost of ownership?
 BL> Pros & Cons of installing it?

I think that this is a very common trend among some software authors,  and a
very unfortunate one at that.  The only good thing is that it's going to be a
self-limiting phenomenon,  as these questions ought to be easily answerable
_before_ one installs a package,  and if I can't find out I sure as heck won't 
install such a package here.  If enough people felt that way perhaps people
wouldn't be writing stuff that acted like that...

Reminds me of some of the winXX stuff that's showed up here where it's named
something.exe and you go to look inside it and all that's in there is one big
setup.exe file.  What the heck am I supposed to do with that?  Toss it is most 
likely!

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