[WarpCast] SFX Installer - 5/09/99




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Source: Wayne Swanson (swanee@pillarsoft.net)
Moderator: Dirk Terrell (admin@os2ss.com)
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The SFX Installer has been released for general usage.

The SFX Installer offers the first one file 
archive/installation tool widely available on the OS/2 
platform. It marries the installation tool for your
software and it's own setup tools into one friendly package 
for point and click installation setups that are 
personalized for your software. SFX allows you to
build an archive in standard or self-extracting format, 
with or without the installer.

There are no cryptic scripts to learn to write other than 
any setupstrings you need to place folders and icons on the 
desktop. The installation setup tool allows you to point 
and click a complete setup. When you are satisfied with how
the archive should be setup you can save all the 
information and recall it when needed.  SFX will save and 
retrieve as many setups as you have disk space for and will 
help the author of multiple programs to keep them 
organized. It can also be used as a general zip file 
distribution builder as well.

The SFX Installer includes several novel details for the 
software distributer including:

1) Dll and help file placement (and tracking) into existing 
LIBPATH and SET HELP directories so your user may avoid 
adding to these paths and also avoid rebooting before 
usage.

2) An uninstallation script is written at install time 
specific to the users installation that will, track all 
files your program has installed and remove any WPS objects 
created at installation time. This uninstall script can be
modified if needed via a plugin.

3) Authors can make use of Plugin scripts to overcome any 
installation limitations that your installations need to 
perform.  (examples included)


Although the installer is distributed as shareware, we 
invite freeware authors to use the installer free of charge 
as a small token of appreciation for their selfless work. 
Please read the license for more details.

More information and downloads are available at: http://www.pillarsoft.net

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