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Posted by Neredbojias on 04/03/06 02:36
To further the education of mankind, Blinky the Shark
<no.spam@box.invalid> declaimed:
> Neredbojias wrote:
>> Gotcha, read it in the pre-stall stuff, too. That's another thing I
>> like about X-news: no "official" install crap; just zipfiles/create
>> folder/move files/click on .exe. That install stuff doesn't really
>> do clients any good; it's more for the benefit of the purveyors.
>
> That makes it easy to migrate the program to another system (or sync
> it with another system), too. If you have set it up in the same
> location (xnews folder has the same path) in each, you can just copy
> that folder from one machine to the other. Hell, if your system
> allows USB execution I think you can just carry it with you on a thumb
> drive and run it from there wherever you are. :)
Uh huh. Microsoft hasn't done us many favors in the last ~15 years. (Of
course, they haven't done themselves many, either. OE, for example,
regressed from bad to worse.)
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Neredbojias
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