#delete old WUTIL?
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Now that the new version of WUTIL is available, I think it would be
desirable to delete the file WUTIL.ARC in Library 4, which is WUTIL 3.12.
The DEScription of this file says that it works on MS-DOS 3.1, which is
misleading and caused great grief to a number of forum members, since it
hangs Suitable's MS-DOS 3.10b, the most recent version of MS-DOS for the
Rainbow. Nobody's fault–that WUTIL was uploaded 28-Apr-89, before MS-DOS
3.10b was available–but it's now desirable to delete it, to remove a
frustrating pitfall for the unwary.
Willett,
I agree in principle. As soon as someone out there among our user
community verifies that they have actually used WUTIL 3.2 — more
specifically, *the copy here* — to format and partition a hard disk, then
I'll trash 3.12.
(Hey, lurkers: this means you! When you download it and use it and find
it to work properly for the first time, please send one of the sysops a
note so we will delete the old one.)
Of course a corollary of this is to point out that this copy of WUTIL 3.2
has not undergone the level of testing that the sysops put most submissions
to, as outlined in Carl's note earlier.
In the meantime, though, I *will* move WUTIL 3.12 to the Archives library
(15) so it is less likely to be grabbed by someone looking for the current
version, and I will modify the description appropriately.
-Bill