I'm trying to write a small installer stack for Windows deployment.
The aim is to build a self-expander using the WinZip utility. This
allows you to include a command that will be executed once files have
been copied to the default temp directory. Such self-expanders do
the following:
1) unpack all contained files into the temp directory (as defined by $TEMP)
2) execute specified setup command line (e.g. "mc installer.mc")
3) delete all the unpacked files from the temp directory
For a variety of reasons, I want to distribute the MC player and *.mc
files rather than standalone *.exe files. What I hope to achieve is
an installer stack that does the following:
1) copy my app files to a new directory "C:\MyApp" say
2) copy MC player files to a new directory "C:\MetaCard Player" say
3) set up the Windows Registry keys to recognise *.mc files as MetaCard stacks
Given that I need to run the temp directory copy of MC to execute my
installer stack, I can't use the 'rename' command' to "move" the
player from the temp directory to its intended location (as the file
is in use at the time). I had hoped to 'copy' the MC player and
mctools.mc from the temp directory into a "C:\MetaCard Player"
directory. However, I can't find a 'copy file' command?! It seems I
can create files, delete them, move/rename them, but I can't copy
them.
Any bright ideas, or am I missing the obvious!?
Thanks
Peter
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Peter Reid
Reid-IT Limited, Loughborough, Leics., UK
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