>At 9:57 AM +0000 3/11/1999, Peter Reid wrote:
>
>>Unfortunately, the proposed solution works fine for all the files
>>except "mc.exe". With this I just end up with a zero length file as
>>Windows reports the file as "in use" and refuses to copy its
>>contents! Any further suggestions to get round this one?
>>
>>If I get a workable solution, I'll offer it up to the MC list as
>>it's potentially a neat and simple way of providing Windows
>>installers without needing to buy and use general purpose installers.
>
>Could you put a compressed version of mc.exe into a custom property
>of your stack? Then install it with something like:
>
>put decompress(the cpPlayerFile of this stack) into url
>"binfile:C:/dir/MetaCard Player2"
>
>It will add to the size of the installer, but only 700K or so.
>
>Apologies if I'm off track here. I missed the beginning of the thread.
>
>Cheers
>Dave Cragg
Brilliant, what an excellent solution - it adds about 600k to my
'installer.mc', which is no great problem.
Thanks very much for this solution, the simple installer works really
well. I'll tidy it up a bit and make it a bit more generic and then
offer it to this list - what's the best way to do this?
Best regards
Peter
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