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Subject:What's it called? From:John Posada <jposada01 -at- YAHOO -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 5 May 1999 11:22:59 -0700
Ok, guys...question:
A section of the document I'm working on is for the
Installation of a program. The audience is probably
novice, not PC-literate, and may never have installed
an application before. English is not their first
language for any of them.
Background: If a certain abnormal event occurs during
the installation, they need to run one of the
processes manually. Therefore, I have a paragraph:
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"Step 1: In the directory
C:\Program\<ApplicationName>, you will find a ???
named mdac_typ.exe. Run this ??? by clicking it once
to highlight it, then press the [Enter] key on your
keyboard.
Result: This will run the ???."
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My question...what do you call an .exe file that is
not the main executable.
Windows Explorer calls it an "Application". By it
being an .exe, it is a "Program". OTOH, it is really
just a "File".
Any takers?
Thanks
===
John Posada
Western Union International
(w) jposada -at- westernunion -dot- com
(p) john -at- tdandw -dot- com
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