[Logic] LOGic 6 Updates - Which version(s) is online?
Terry Dummler
[email protected]
Sun, 4 May 2003 06:48:33 -0700
Right On
Terry,WQ7A
----- Original Message -----
From: "K1UQ" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 5:58 AM
Subject: [Logic] LOGic 6 Updates - Which version(s) is online?
> Dennis et all:
>> If my memory is correct, I recall online LOGic updates always having the
> same (or similar) file name format:
> "logic6update". I don't know about others, but on more than one occassion
I
> have wondered just which version is inside these downloads.
>> Doesn't it make sense to embed the version number into the file name?
> Wouldn't it be easier for users to see just which update is available? and
> thereby let users know whether they have already downloaded it?
>> If I download the latest (and do so perhaps redundantly!) and then look at
> its contents, NOTHING says which version is included - again no file name
> with version, no readme file. (If the executable download includes the
> version in its file name, then its contents are not important to the user
> and its file names could remain a constant to make it easier for the
install
> program.)
>> Relying on "the latest one, is the one that's online" is not as helpful
(and
> certainly not as explicit) as having the version number in the filename.
>> Food for thought.
>> Regards, Bill K1UQ
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