Peter Reid wrote:
>
> 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!?
How about this:
put url "binfile:mc.exe" into url "binfile:c:/metacard player/mc.exe"
This use of "put" makes a copy of the source data in the destination
container. The fact that mc.exe is currently executing shouldn't be a
problem since it's loaded into memory at startup and is run from there.
Regards,
Phil Davis
>
> Thanks
>
> Peter
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