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Number   :  405
Date     :  2001-07-16
Author   :  Joseph Maddison
Subject  :  Re: nags, yet again
Size(KB) :  1



>Now, with XXCOPY v.2.56.0 and later (with the differentiation of
>XXCOPY-PRO and XXCOPY-Freeware, the "Installation" procedure is
>a little more than placing the files into the proper place.
>When we say "Installing XXCOPY", we mean you run the INSTALL.BAT

Never did that before, so that was my issue. Guess I followed the previous 
behavior because it worked before. Everyone using a prior version is more 
than likely to do the same thing. But... if you have a program called 
"setup.exe" in the archive, WinZip gives an "Install" button which unzips 
the files to a temp directory and runs the program. Perhaps that would be 
better for inattentive people like me that previously were able to extract 
the files and run normally.

>Even if you fail to follow the
> instruction, the first invocation of XXCOPY, it will
> initialize the system registry

Ah, but typing XXCOPY with no parameters does not do this. Shouldn't that 
count as the first invocation? It shows the help and does not say anything 
helpful like, please use XXCOPY /install to initialize your registry.

>(most people describes it as extremely annoying) license term
>display (less than 1 minute), it was not intended as a "nag".

Is there any other software that has a similar method of forcing the user 
to read the EULA? Why or why not?

Regards,

Joseph Maddison
Minneapolis, MN
jdmaddison@m...



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