P. Clay Sherrod Jan 20, 2012
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From: "Arild Moland" <astralscooter@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 2:49 AM
Subject: Re: [guide-user] Update to Guide 9.0 (and 8.0) posted
> The way I read Bill, is that Guide8 users from now on will use the Guide9
> software. Ie. that the old Guide8.exe shall be deleted, and Guide9.exe used
> instead. This is probably a break from what was done during the transition
> from Guide 7 to 8?
>
> Anyway, it makes sense for Bill to avoid maintaing two different exe's.
> What you get from ordering Guide9 is much more data. After all, we all know
> that Guide9 is basically the latest installment of Guide8 + a bunch of new
> data, so this way up updating Guide8 ought to make sense.
>
> Perhaps though, Bill should provide a copy of the Guide9.exe, named
> Guide8.exe, to avoid confusion? (Or better, provide a zip-file identical to
> the Guide9 update, wherein the Guide9.exe is renamed Guide8.exe.)
>
> Arild :)
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> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 2:48 AM, P. Clay Sherrod <drclay@...> wrote:
>
>> **
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>> I understand....so how do I change it as you suggest on your website? Just
>> simply
>> CHANGE the name to "guide9.exe" or do we simply need to SELECT that one
>> and delete
>> the older "guide8.exe?"
>>
>>
>> Clay
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bill J Gray" <pluto@...>
>> To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 7:35 PM
>> Subject: Re: [guide-user] Update to Guide 9.0 (and 8.0) posted
>>
>> > Hi Clay,
>> >
>> >> Updating this to Guide8 has me and a couple of others confused; you say:
>> >> "Last hurdle: copy guide9.exe to guide8.exe, overwriting the latter.
>> You're now
>> >> done.
>> >> One oddity is that running guide8.exe will cause Guide to say "Guide
>> 9.0". "
>> >>
>> >> What do we copy and what do we overwrite? is there a guide9.exe file
>> that is NOT
>> >> in
>> >> the update files? Do we simply change the NAME from guide8.exe to
>> "guide9.exe"?
>> >
>> > There should be a 'guide9.exe' that was unZIPped from the 'guide9.zip'
>> file.
>> > It ought to be in your Guide folder.
>> >
>> > You're right that there will be no previously-existing 'guide9.exe' in
>> your case
>> > (or for anyone else running Guide 8.) Note that you are copying
>> guide9.exe _to_
>> > guide8.exe, not the other way around.
>> >
>> > -- Bill
>> >
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