Re: [MacPerl] Installing on Users' Macs

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

At 16:06 -0800 12/2/98, Jefferson R. Lowrey wrote:> I suppose one problem
with installing MacPerl is that users can, and would,
> throw random files away "Because I didn't think I needed them, and I had
>to
> make space for this avi my friend told me about".

I installed MacPerl on several user machines at a previous rainbow colored
company.  Machines with plenty of room.  People kept asking me what they
could throw away.  All those files just _looked_ big to them. (At least
they asked).

> >The other is a script that would, after installing MacPerl, make the
>folder
> >invisible and lock everything up so it could not be "messed" with by
> >anyone.  A corresponding unlock/visible script could be made, too.
>
> Would this prevent MacPerl from seeing files it needed?  Would this
>prevent
> scripts from finding files *they* needed?  It shouldn't, right?
>

It shouldn't.  Mac apps use invisiblae files all the time (more often than
I like :-(

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