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jay pettitt

jay pettitt

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To cut a short story shorter, I did a fresh install of The Dark Mod on Windows. The updater worked beautifully, without any input it carefully acquired and collated the most up to date versions of all the TDM files from the the best servers and mirrors across the Internet.

 

And then deposited the whole lot on my desktop.

 

Now, obviously if I'd read the friggin manual this wouldn't have happened. But I didn't. And given that there's one born every second, I doubt I'll be the last.

 

So, for clots like me, how about including a Readme file to the tdm_update_win.zip package thingy to help stop us getting lost.

 

I even made some up for you.

readme.txt

readme.txt

readme.txt

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I guess it's sensible to include a readme.txt in the zip files, it's just that these zip archives are generated automatically, so it needs to be included in our packaging scripts somehow.

 

Thanks for the suggestion, in any case.

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