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USBASPI.SYS - installers & SFX's (Announce)

posted by DOS386, 15.12.2007, 18:19

> It's not uncommon for people to do so (e.g. registered A86)

True, but it doesn't make the thing or the guys better

> talking about (for example) can be unpacked in DOS with LHA-UNIX
> OpenWatcom comes as a Win32 installer / .ZIP sfx, so you can just unzip

ZIP/UNZIP, LHA, 7-ZIP, INNOUNP, ... most of them indeed can be extracted in DOS if you try hard enough but this fact doesn't make the creators less stupid and idiotic ... software should be designed to be "easy to use", not intentionally difficult to use and bloated with dead crap (the installer / SFX code). Finally, DOS again is the only OS having such habits tolerated ... nobody would come up with the idea to code a package for Windaube and pack it with an installer running on for example MENUetOS only

> There was a beta DOS installer, DSETUP, recently but it
> disappeared for some reason, dunno why.)

Some sort of "no need" probably

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Complete thread:

• USBASPI.SYS version 2.24 available - rr, 29.11.2007, 13:53 (Announce)
  • USBASPI.SYS version 2.24 available - RayeR, 29.11.2007, 14:13
    • USBASPI.SYS version 2.24 available - Rugxulo, 01.12.2007, 09:06
      • USBASPI.SYS version 2.24 available - RayeR, 01.12.2007, 14:22
        • USBASPI.SYS version 2.24 available - Steve, 01.12.2007, 15:47
      • USBASPI.SYS version 2.24 available - rr, 02.12.2007, 17:13
  • USBASPI.SYS version 2.24 available - DOS386, 12.12.2007, 11:21
    • USBASPI.SYS version 2.24 available - rr, 12.12.2007, 16:27
      • USBASPI.SYS version 2.24 available - DOS386, 14.12.2007, 06:07
        • USBASPI.SYS - WinLHA - Rugxulo, 14.12.2007, 08:31
          • USBASPI.SYS - WinLHA - rr, 14.12.2007, 11:19
            • USBASPI.SYS - WinLHA - Rugxulo, 14.12.2007, 19:09
              • USBASPI.SYS - WinLHA - rr, 15.12.2007, 21:14
          • USBASPI.SYS - installers & SFX's - DOS386, 15.12.2007, 18:19
            • USBASPI.SYS - installers & SFX's - Steve, 16.12.2007, 00:26
              • USBASPI.SYS - installers & SFX's - DOS386, 16.12.2007, 00:31
                • USBASPI.SYS - installers & SFX's - Steve, 16.12.2007, 04:34
        • USBASPI.SYS version 2.24 available - rr, 14.12.2007, 11:16
          • USBASPI.SYS version 2.24 available - Steve, 14.12.2007, 13:10
            • USBASPI.SYS version 2.24 available - rr, 14.12.2007, 16:08
    • USBASPI.SYS - Win32 PE GUI (Win-LHA SFX ?) - Rugxulo, 12.12.2007, 17:28
  • USBASPI.SYS version 2.24 available - Japheth, 15.12.2007, 18:20
    • USBASPI.SYS version 2.24 available - rr, 15.12.2007, 21:17