Re: [wpkg-users] Installer types

2008-04-03 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Joel Levin schrieb: Is is safe to say that any application installer with a .exe would use the .exe silent installer package? I am wondering if some applications may say they are .exe, but are actually msi. How would you know? Windows distinguishes file types by file extensions. So if you

Re: [wpkg-users] Installer types

2008-04-03 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Joel Levin schrieb: Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Joel Levin schrieb: Is is safe to say that any application installer with a .exe would use the .exe silent installer package? I am wondering if some applications may say they are .exe, but are actually msi. How would you know? Windows

Re: [wpkg-users] Installer types

2008-04-03 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Joel Levin schrieb: (...) Why do you need to know if there is a hidden MSI inside? When I go to the WPKG site, and look under the silent installer link, there are different scripts for the various types of installers. I experienced some problems when I used the wrong type of script with

Re: [wpkg-users] Installer types

2008-04-03 Thread Rainer Meier
Hi, Thank you for that--it helps Tomasz. Is there some way (perhaps in get info--or in properties) to test an installer to know what type of installer it actually is? You could try the ultimate silent switch finder provided here:

[wpkg-users] Installer types

2008-04-02 Thread Joel Levin
Is is safe to say that any application installer with a .exe would use the .exe silent installer package? I am wondering if some applications may say they are .exe, but are actually msi. How would you know? Thank you, Joel University of Washington School of Public Health and Community