Re: A86: Assembly Studio 8x released

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Re: A86: Assembly Studio 8x released




On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 19:01:04 -0700 "David Phillips" <david@acz.org>
writes:
> You're probably right.  I'm just guessing from what I've seen it do. 
>  After
> I installed Assembly Studio (this was one of the betas), I copied a 
> plugin
> DLL into the directory with the same name as one of the original 
> ones, and
> to my horror Windows recopied the original DLL back into the 
> directory on
> top of it.  Which has it's advantages, yes, but it's not always a 
> good
> thing.
> 
> > see above; this provides no checking at the beginning. it has 
> been
> continually shown that people cannot
> > unzip to proper directories on their own.
> 
> I think he means a zip file with a setup program.  If it's just one
> executable, I'll settle for no install program.  If it has a lot of 
> files, I
> want a program to automate the process of creating a directory and 
> adding it
> to the start menu (at my option).

what i meant was a simple zip of the installed files.  this doesn't need
anything installed anywhere else or registry entries.  in the end i had
to install on a computer with winme & copy the program dir over the
network.  annoying.

"ordinary" people seem to have to have the hardest time with the simplest
tasks...


> > i'm not trying to advocate msi though... i think that 
> installshield serves
> purposes well. however, using msi
> > is much less expensive. i'm still confuzzled about it borking on 
> install
> for you though. i've never had any
> > problems with an install.

it turned out the file had somehow been corrupted, so i dled it again. 
same result.
i had to use ie on a computer with winme & tell it to install from there.


anyway, now that i've got it installed... wow.  forget a binary output
option, i just wrote an output plugin to perform the lzss compression &
write an include file.  now that's cool!


-josh



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