But then Bill's updates always work :)

Seriously though I have had few problems working that way and any problems
Bill has always fixed in a hurry.

At 12:30 06/02/2000 +0100, you wrote:

>Hallo Owen, am 06.02.00 meintest Du in /guide-user
>
>> Does this mean that most users when they update Guide put it into a
>> new directory or just overwrite existing files. I tend to do that
>> and certainly timzone.nam did not disappear and like some of the
>> others I have had no problems with any time settings with the
>> current upgrade.
>
>The fastest and dangerous way is: Putting all files in the original guide
>directory and unzip the zips. If there's an error, you must reinstall the
>old CD-EOM version. I do this sometimes, but I make every night a complete
>backup of all data...
>
>The best way is: copy the complete guide-directory to guide-old or so and
>then do the same as above. When there is now an error, you can copy your
>old data back after erasing the complete directory.
>
>jj
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