matt@oddjob.UUCP (Matt Crawford) (05/06/86)
One particular gripe of mine is the absolutely ridiculous installation procedure for the new software from IMAGEN. Step one is "become the super user", step two is "run this gigantic script and do what it tells you". The admin of a neighboring system answered the "log file?" question with "/dev/tty", which it promptly unlinked and created. Ugh. On ours it trashed 2 months of accounting data for our older imagen somehow, we're still not quite sure how. And it makes you wait eons to load in all fonts for all types of printers, whether you want them or not. Then it does some bogus rmdir's on non-empty directories that it created itself, with no echo of the command and error messages suppressed. I'm still steamed about this installation script. I complained to Imagen, but they think it's the greatest thing since sliced time. _____________________________________________________ Matt University crawford@anl-mcs.arpa Crawford of Chicago ihnp4!oddjob!matt Sooner or later, generals will own you.