Gord Hannah wrote in a message to Jack Stein:

 JS> own in it's config file.  I personally detest self-extracting
 JS> archives, and they should be banned totally for most everything
 JS> other than distributing the compression program itself, IMO

 GH> I use them if I am going to go to some one elses machine and
 GH> am not sure if they have any archiving software to
 GH> decompress the program. 

I would aways install ZIP on any machine ai worked on that didn't have it
already, which was very rare. I don't work on anyones machines anymore, they
are either WIN machines, and I won't touch them, or OS/2 machines and they
don't need my help.  One of the nice things about all the non-computer people
using WIN crap, is I always state immediatly that "I don't know nothing about
WIN"  Saves me a ton of aggravation.  

 GH> Thanks Jack, was touch and go about a month ago another
 GH> damned hd crash, Fujitsu drives do not like me.  Bought a
 GH> Seagate and am trying it out, I prefer Quantum but not any
 GH> available in my area when I needed it.

I've had Western Digital drives  on this thing since day one, and have never
had a crash let alone a loss of a drive (other than my new computer in 91, the 
WD drive blew up the first month). I've had 3 WD running for years, and a year 
or two ago replaced 2 of them with a used Quantum and a used Seagate.  All 3
are running fine.  A 5 gig WD, a 2.1 Seagate, and an 875 meg Quantum.  I paid
$50 for the last 2 drives a couple of years ago. My PC hasn't been shut off
since 1991 other than maintenance either.  I might add I never lost even one
file under OS/2 in all this time. I still have the 400meg and 200 meg drives
sitting here beside me, full of files, can't figure out what to do with them.

                                              Jack 
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