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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1119.1 | | HLDE01::SOEMBA::RIK | Mostly Harmless | Tue Nov 01 1994 06:23 | 6 |
| (if you're not sure about a certain construct, try another ...)
Installed by: <name here>
- Rik -
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| 1119.2 | | VORTEX::SMURF::BINDER | etsi capularis ego vita fruar | Tue Nov 01 1994 07:00 | 3 |
| Why not "Person who will install this software"?
-dick
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| 1119.3 | Software to be installed by: <name> | WELSWS::HILLN | It's OK, it'll be dark by nightfall | Tue Nov 01 1994 08:06 | 1 |
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| 1119.4 | | CAPNET::ROSCH | | Tue Nov 01 1994 12:17 | 1 |
| SW Installation Engineer
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| 1119.5 | | JRDV04::DIAMOND | segmentation fault (california dumped) | Tue Nov 01 1994 16:07 | 5 |
| I think "Installer" is correct.
"A software" (as written in .0) isn't.
-- Norman Diamond
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| 1119.6 | Correct isn't always optimum. | VORTEX::SMURF::BINDER | etsi capularis ego vita fruar | Tue Nov 01 1994 16:22 | 10 |
| Re .5
"Installer" is correct; but, given that many Macintosh programs are
installed by programs named "<Program-Name> Installer" or, often,
simply "Installer," and many PC programs are installed by programs
named "INSTALL.EXE," the single word is ambiguous. Clearly, there are
problems of clarity; otherwise, why would the basenoter have asked for
assistance?
-dick
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| 1119.7 | An alligator is a person who alligates? | PASTIS::MONAHAN | humanity is a trojan horse | Tue Nov 01 1994 23:28 | 9 |
| I am a native English speaker, and I have used "installer" recently
in documentation, but this was in a context (answering installation
questions) where it couldn't be confused with a piece of software.
I have a vague rememberance from hundreds of years ago when I was
at school that we were given a rule-of-thumb that if it was a person
doing it then you should use the "or" ending, while if it was a thing
then you should use the "er" ending. I have no idea where this "rule"
came from.
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| 1119.8 | | SWETSC::WESTERBACK | Mai pen rai! | Wed Nov 02 1994 01:16 | 14 |
| Thanks for your input!
I think we'll go for Installer, there won't be any ambiguity
about whether a person or a piece of software is intended.
(This is an internal form for ordering software application
installations from IS/OSC).
Re .6: The reason I asked was merely that we weren't sure if
the word installer was at all appropriate in this context...
In Swedish the word is indeed "installat�r", but we couldn't
recollect seeing installer being used in English. It is in the
dictionary, but the description wasn't that exhaustive.
Hans
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| 1119.9 | | HLDE01::SOEMBA::RIK | Mostly Harmless | Wed Nov 02 1994 01:47 | 10 |
| > In Swedish the word is indeed "installat�r", but we couldn't
> recollect seeing installer being used in English. It is in the
In Dutch this word (installateur) is more likely to refer to a person installing
heating, water or electricity in a building. It could be used in the context you
mention, but would not be my word of choice. Kind of calling a CS engineer a
mechanic (which I have been, both).
- Rik -
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| 1119.10 | | JRDV04::DIAMOND | segmentation fault (california dumped) | Thu Nov 03 1994 16:33 | 9 |
| Re .7
> I have a vague rememberance from hundreds of years ago when I was
>at school that we were given a rule-of-thumb that if it was a person
>doing it then you should use the "or" ending, while if it was a thing
>then you should use the "er" ending. I have no idea where this "rule"
>came from.
From your ruler, of course.
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| 1119.11 | It must have been our educator (or dictator) | PASTIS::MONAHAN | humanity is a trojan horse | Thu Nov 03 1994 23:37 | 1 |
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| 1119.12 | | AUSSIE::WHORLOW | Bushies do it for FREE! | Sun Nov 06 1994 14:32 | 9 |
| G'day,
No, it was a regulation... ie the rulor's brother said it.
Give him a foot, and he thinks he is a ruler...
derek
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| 1119.13 | A Year Late and an Installer Short | wook.mso.dec.com::mold.ogo.dec.com::lee | Wook like book with a W | Wed Sep 20 1995 23:57 | 3 |
| FWIW, I'd've used "Installer's Name:_________"
Wook
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