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["Udo Kuhnt" <048321887-0001@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi Sam!

Sorry for my ranting; this stuff gets on my nerves.

> Many other people have installed without problem, so where is the bug?

The bug is that once you get beyond the "try out and delete it again"
way of using Arachne - i.e, when you start using a fixed directory for
your Arachne installation - certain files will no longer be updated,
without an error message of any kind that would tell you that something
went wrong. Since most people will probably use the default dir for
Arachne, which is c:\arachne, and *not* delete this dir before
installing the new version, they will lose lots of new features without
noticing. That is what I would call a bug.

> Despite the fact that you are "not a casual users" something went wrong
> with your install. Didn't you ever have something go wrong before? I'm
> only making suggestions from a desire to help.

I make a backup before installing a new version of any program just in
case something goes wrong, so I can revert to the old version. I did not
have this problem with Arachne so far, though - or so I thought -
everything seemed to work after the upgrade. It is hard to notice that a
feature is missing that you have not seen before.

> The common cure when something goes wrong with an install is to try it
> again. Shit, people have to do that all the time with Windows and it
> doesn't stop them from using Windows programs.

Yes, but they do not install it into a new directory every time. In
fact, most Windows users would not understand why they could not simply
upgrade their existing installation - such a prerequisite is extremely
uncommon for any piece of software. I can even upgrade my DJGPP C
compiler without having to reinstall everything from scratch.

> Since I don't have any particular expertise I try to do things like
> always installing to a new directory first. Call it the caution I've
> learned from experience. Works for me.

Well, judging from the date of the files in my sytem\gui dir, upgrading
Arachne seems to have worked for me, too - until end of 2004. It might
be interesting to find out which version of Arachne was the first one
that no longer updated these files during the installation.

> But I guess experts do things differently. Maybe there is a bug with
> the installer. I don't know.

There has to be a bug in the installer, though I do not know why it
would only refuse to update those files and not also core.exe.

> Is anybody besides Udo having problems?

Judging from the response - probably not. Though most people would
probably not notice that something is missing, either.

Regards,

Udo

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