On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Pete Brink wrote:

> Like many Windows program that modify an environment variable (in this case
 the
> path), the MPLABC Demo installation forces a reboot to reset the environment
> variable for later use.  The install program adds the directory chosen for
> MPLABC to your path in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file.

It's nice of it to _offer_ to perform the necessary reboot, but forcing
it, apparently without warning, is extremely rude.  Not to mention likely
to cause problems if anything else happens to be running at the time.


We aren't in DOS anymore.

(making a note to be extremely cautious if I ever need to install an
Microchip software in a Windows environment.)