From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,
	REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,3110412da42de5ed
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-10-08 20:09:41 PST
Path: 
 archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!west.cox.net!cox.net!nntp2.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp3.aus1.giganews.com!News.GigaNews.Com.POSTED!not-for-mail
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 22:09:10 CDT
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 22:09:08 -0500
From: Ze Administrator <groleaufamily@despammed.com>
Reply-To: groleaufamily@despammed.com
Organization: Ain't no organization here
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US;
 rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx, pt-br, fr-ca, de,
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: operating support (ada95 - objectada)
References: <a6b859fe.0210051925.7a9d9518@posting.google.com>
 <l7Yn9.66485$dp1.169668@rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net>
 <a6b859fe.0210081339.1d8bd7c@posting.google.com>
 <uk7kslh6b.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-ID: <-ZycneW2AelLAD6gXTWcpw@News.GigaNews.Com>
X-Trace: 
 sv3-Jln4gu0A8XybNVTw9HXCONg0p58wQhyM6d/e4K1T0Y7XBqdFjIhGjjauaPvKHIUIWJL0BBDKCasGdmo!Lpo1AbKDZ4lq7whdfK4pmw4D4BvCCEv3r6bfprFNL2uaIev9GUZQ4R2yfktm9jC4itw=
X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.com
X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint
 properly
X-Postfilter: 1.1
Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29603
Date: 2002-10-08T22:09:08-05:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>


>>Say if I downloaded the latest version of objectada and my college had
>>a older one, would they conflict or be okay?
> 
> I think you can install them side by side; depends on whether they use
> the registry intelligently (I'm assuming Windows here).

What IQ are you assuming for "intelligently" ?

When installed, OA lists itself as the app to open
for any .ads or .adb files.  If another program
(such as GNAT) is already registered for that, it
silently takes them away from that program.

This can make for odd behavior in the other program.

Disclaimer: I observed this behavior two years ago.
It may be better now.  It _should_ prompt the user
whether or not to do the override.  If you override,
and then run uninstall of the other, you could delete
files needed for OA (or vice versa).