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Daniel Martinez writes:
> Jim, there are no instructions on your web page for installing PERL.
> Losing my Investing Partition is VERY INCONVENIENT!! While I should
> be able to recover it, I will lose some work. Plus I will have to
> download about 2-3 weeks of data from Quotes-Plus.
Hey, c'mon; I understand your frustration, but let's be fair; unzipping
an archive with an UNKNOWN number of files in it, IN your root
directory, WITHOUT preserving directory structure, is just Not A Smart
Thing To Do (tm). PARTICULARLY when you could have EASILY perused the
archive beforehand to see what was in it. What would even possess you
to do such a thing?
(I'd maintain that using such an OS with such a braindead file-system
that even ALLOWS this sort of corruption is lunacy, but I digress.)
> This is just another lesson telling us not to use software we are not
> familiar with.
If you want to think that nothing bad will happen no matter how you
abuse the tools, sure. If, however, you are living in THIS world, where
bad things happen, and sometimes it isn't even your fault, you might
want to practice just a hair of caution now and again.
And where was your nightly backup? This isn't a perfect world man, you
have to protect yourself against others, but mainly against yourself. I
do.
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