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Date:	Fri, 26 Mar 2004 18:23:56 PST8PDT,4,1,0,3600,10,-1,0,7200,3600
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: in point of fact . . . .

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Ray Davison wrote:

> If you have the actual files, send them.
>
> > Since you have no real interest in them, it's
> > academic.
>
> Not totally. I, and others, have spent time trying to explain how to
> install when only a ZIP is available. It would be nice to be able to
> just point at an executable.
>

Well, it looks like you and Steven were correct, and I was misremembering about this.
1.4.something was the last .EXE archive prior to the recent 1.7b; what I have are indeed
zipfiles. However, I'm sure that I've never installed Mozilla manually. I wouldn't know
where to begin. That leads me to suppose that there must be one or more .CMD files inside the
zip that automate the install process, and that is what I must have used. To me,
functionally, as an end user, this makes little difference from what the .EXE installer does
for us. Along the way, it may be necessary to answer some questions, choose some defaults,
fill in some boxes, but the whole deal gets installed *for me* in some automatic fashion.

By the way, it would be nice to have another reminder about upgrade replacements. Wasn't
there some simple rule along the lines of: 'Delete everything below a certain point of the
existing Mozilla tree structure, THEN install the new version' ? Even if there is such a
procedure, I expect it may now be complicated by the need to make sure we have some particular
.DLLs in the right place.

Jordan

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