Message-ID:	<328BC217.5266@ananke.amu.edu.pl>
Date:	Fri, 15 Nov 1996 02:06:31 +0100
From:	Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To:	grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
Organization:	Home, sweet home
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To:	malcolm AT manawatu DOT gen DOT nz
CC:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Smaller distribution archives
References:	<199611140446 DOT RAA03058 AT papaioea DOT manawatu DOT gen DOT nz>

Malcolm Taylor wrote:

> Thought of this a while ago, a script with at least query boxes (so
> you can ask for directories) a few variables to set up directories
> etc. This could be stuck somewhere in the archive near the beginning
> (in fact at the beginning) and accessed by the SFX code.
Why not to use the RAR approach? Just put the script in the comment. And
a good looking UI can be written in ASM using just a few lines of code.

> As for the usefulness, several versions of these are already used for
> instalation archives (eg WinZip's self installer I have seen used, as
> well as WinRAR's). These would be great for packages distributed on
> the Internet and would get rid of the temp dir headaches.
I begun thinking about it when I was looking for some SFX-creator for
ZIP archives that'd enable me to call a program at the end of the
extraction process. I found none (for DOS)...

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