RE: Eudora 5.2.1 installer comment

Ted's suggestion to clean up the 5.2.1 installer would really be a great help to me and the folks at C@B Consulting who support hundreds of retired faculty and staff.

Andre

Andre S. Porter
Administrative Specialist
UC Berkeley Retirement Center
2 Boalt Hall #7200
Berkeley, CA 94720-7200
Phone: 510/642-5461
Fax: 510/643-1460
Web: http://thecenter.berkeley.edu
 

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From: owner-micronet-list@uclink4.berkeley.edu [mailto:owner-micronet-list@uclink4.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of tedcrum@socrates.berkeley.edu
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 3:25 PM
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Subject: [Micronet] Eudora 5.2.1 installer comment

I have been installing Eudora 5.2.1 in preparation for the UClink migration, and I have 2 comments on the installation process:

* The Eudora installer that is available from the WSSG download site is a self-extracting Zip archive, which unzips files to \windows\temp but does execute setup.exe from that folder.

So the user must navigate to the temp folder and manually run setup.exe .
Not all users will understand this process; not all will even notice the destination directory in the Winzip dialog.

* The Eudora setup program mentions that the software must be paid for.
This message can be ignored, but not everyone will understand.

If the installer could be cleaned-up before the (delayed?) migration, life would be better for those users who must do this themselves.

-tc

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Ted Crum
tedcrum@socrates.berkeley.edu
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