It's the same thing. pp just appends the PAR file to a self-extracting
binary. You could look through the code, determine how the code signatures
are being calculated, and update them, but I think it would be less work to
just re-compile.

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Robert Davis <robert.da...@infor.com>
wrote:

> is there an option for pp.
> Can I use the cygwin pp to update a exe created from strawberry?
>
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> Bob
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> On 10/23/2015 11:11 AM, Daniel Caspi wrote:
>
> It won't be trivial to do that.
>
> Code signatures are calculated for each file and added, and there's an
> overall code signature also. If the internal files are modified, PAR thinks
> it's corrupt and will abort.
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Robert Davis <robert.da...@infor.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Is there anyway to update just one .pl file without par.
>> I want to update just my main script file.
>> I don't want to download strawberry perl and all of the packages I need.
>> I tried with zip from cygwin
>>     zip http2vm scripts/http2vm.pl
>> I tried with 7zip for windows.
>>     added zip file
>>
>> Both of them changed the file so I get this when I execute the par file.
>>
>> bob@USPONRDAVIS1/c/scripts$ http2vm.exe
>> Usage: C:\scripts\http2vm.exe [ -Alib.par ] [ -Idir ] [ -Mmodule ] [
>> src.par ] [ program.pl ]
>>        C:\scripts\http2vm.exe [ -B|-b ] [-Ooutfile] src.par
>>
>> Instead of the usage information that is in my script file.
>> So I guess it is resetting the execute part of the zip file.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Bob
>> Bob Davis | Infor |Office: 603.334.5060 | <robert.da...@infor.com>
>> robert.da...@infor.com | cell: 603-205-0845 | home: 603-778-0781
>>
>>
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