Re: SV: What No 'Copy File'?

1999-11-03 Thread Richard Gaskin
>This should be no problem on the Mac. Even running applications can >be even moved without problems on the Mac. And the resource fork? - Richard Gaskin Fourth World Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web __

Re: SV: What No 'Copy File'?

1999-11-03 Thread Ruediger zu Dohna
At 11:35 Uhr +0100 03.11.1999, Eva Isotalo wrote: >How about making it work on Mac too This should be no problem on the Mac. Even running applications can be even moved without problems on the Mac. Regards RĂ¼ P.S.: ... ooops ;-) -

Re: What No 'Copy File'?

1999-11-03 Thread Alan Beattie
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Peter Reid wrote: > 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? Peter, I'd be happy to put it up on our website in the c

Re: What No 'Copy File'?

1999-11-03 Thread Peter Reid
>Don't know why put url didn't work, perhaps you need both read and write >privileges with it. The old way of reading and writing does work however: > > put "c:/metacard/mc.exe" into source > put "c:/metacard/newmc.exe" into dest > open file source for binary read > open file dest for binary w

Re: What No 'Copy File'?

1999-11-03 Thread Peter Reid
>At 9:57 AM + 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 rou

Re: What No 'Copy File'?

1999-11-03 Thread Dave Cragg
At 9:57 AM + 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 thi

SV: What No 'Copy File'?

1999-11-03 Thread Eva Isotalo
>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. Great! I'm in desperate need for an installer. How about making it work on Mac too just wi

Re: What No 'Copy File'?

1999-11-03 Thread Peter Reid
>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

Re: What No 'Copy File'?

1999-11-02 Thread Phil Davis
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-expander

Re: What No 'Copy File'?

1999-11-02 Thread Andu
>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)

What No 'Copy File'?

1999-11-02 Thread Peter Reid
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) un

Re: SV: What No 'Copy File'?

1999-01-02 Thread Tuviah M Snyder
On Wed, 3 Nov 99 23:34:35 -0800 Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >This should be no problem on the Mac. Even running applications can > >be even moved without problems on the Mac. > > And the resource fork? You can copy the resource fork with MetaCard. If you need to copy the icons