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Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx on Win95


From: Michael Warner
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx on Win95
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 16:47:46 -0800

On Thu, Mar 19, 1998, David Woolley <address@hidden> wrote:

    [...]

> I'd have reservations about self extractors for a couple of reasons:
> 
> - if they don't already have pkunzip/Info-ZIP unzip/winzip and know how to
>   use it, they are almost certainly not sufficiently computer literate to
>   be trying to install a highly configurable text mode program like Lynx;

    [...]

I think there's some validity to that, but as a counter-example, I use
this PC pretty much as a dedicated telnet terminal.  Maybe once or twice
a year I want to unzip something, and I just don't bother keeping a
tool around when it's so easy to grab it, use it, discard it.
Self-extraction is a mild convenience.  The cow-orkers using this PC,
however, are definitely the computer non-literates you mention, and do
much to support your reasoning.

Self *installers*, now, them I dislike.  I like to know what's going
on, and having the process hidden away makes me nervous.

-- 
Michael Warner 
<address@hidden>

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