WarpZip - Installation Suggestions
WarpZip's installation program offers you the chance copy dll and help files into existing directories that are listed in their respective path statements. This has advantages for you should you decide to use this method. It will also write an uninstall script that will remove those files and delete the desktop object should you decide to uninstall it. In other words, they won't be forgotten and left behind to add to the clutter that always seems to accumulate when trying out software.
Consider the following...
After installing a few applications one always runs up against the dreaded mess that our path statements become. Rather than letting every application add to it why not set up a directory for new application app, dll and help files and have just the one extra entry for each of these. Granted, you will not want to copy some larger apps with numerous files into these directories but the smaller apps will use them quite nicely and in a more organized fashion.
Suppose I make a "BIN" directory on the root of my boot drive and add directories under it for apps, dlls and help. So I have:
- C:\bin\apps
- C:\bin\dll
- C:\bin\help
Now I can add these directories to the "Set Path", "Libpath" and "Set Help" statements respectively and when I install an application that wants to add to my "Libpath" statement, for example, I can tell the app not to update my "Config.sys" or remove the additional entry it may have made to my "Libpath" statement. Then I can copy all the apps dll's into the C:\bin\dll directory and I'm all set! Another benefit is that anytime I copy files into these directories they are available immediately to the application without having to reboot.
This method is:
- Neater - Shorter paths
- Safer - Nobody messes with your config.sys
- Faster - Short paths mean less duplication and faster searches
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