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Re: problems and suggestions...


--- Tim Horton <tjhorton@hotmail.com> wrote:
-8<-
> 
> 2. the setup program appears to scan subdirectories for .tar.gz files
> 
>    I had put the old versions in a subdirectly called "old", and
>    setup installed these as though they were in the current directory
>    without warning.  I only noticed this the second time it happened.
> 

Maybe you should have read the instruction manual.  It clearly says, create an
empty directory, place setup.exe there, change your working directory to that
directory and excute setup.

Cheers,



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