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Date:	Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:00:40 -0800
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: browser coexistence

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J R FOX wrote:
> Thanks for that summary, Ray. By
> "cross-interference", I meant: could a running
> executable of one of these mistakenly call a DLL of
> another, and undesired consequences ensue ? Or
> something like that.

I think your fear comes from the Win world, where that fear is well
founded. Over there almost every app has an executable installer that
sticks a lot files in the OS tree. And the possibility of duplicate
file names is very real. I have never understood that system but
sometimes it can be undone. I once had Win on one partition and Norton
Utilities on another. After I replaced the OS partition NU would not
work because it could not find it's files. But I had saved a copy of
the old OS partition. When NU complained that it couldn't find a file I
went to the copy, got the file, and put it in the NU dir. After I got
it all the files it wanted it worked fine, with none of it's parts on
the OS partition. The NU tree could then be copied to another machine
and it would work without any "installation". And maybe that is why
they install it the way they do; to slow down piracy.

Mozilla isn't built that way. You can just Unzip it and run it.

Ray

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