[188] in installers
mink2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nicholas S Howard)
Tue Sep 8 17:17:52 1998
To: installers@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 17:17:39 EDT
From: Nicholas S Howard <nhoward@MIT.EDU>
First: I'd like to say thank you for creating some method to help those
numbers of people for whom mink consistenlty did not work.
Second: I tested mink2 and it worked well with two exceptions.
1. after installation I was not able to find a way to "uninstall" (although
not very important useful for further testing on the same machine)
2. On machines disconnected from the network before running mink2, it "fails"
less than gracefully:
immediately attempts to download vs.dll
intalling:
Copying used by verstamp.exe:
c:\temp\vs.dll
3%
hangs there for about three minutes then continues as if nothing went wrong
except that clicking next the first couple times takes a minute or two to
respond.
additionally, the statement about needing a tcpip connection appears to come
AFTER one is actually "needed"
AND: it was part of a licensing agreement (or something that looked like one)
that NOBODY will ever read. (I only saw it because I searched for it before
commenting on it)
note: although it took a lot of patience it DID successfully finish eventually
Sincerely,
Nicholas Howard
