It would seem more efficient to make a copy of mc.exe (called, say, mc.bup)
as a separate file, and then use:
put url "binfile:mc.bup" into url "binfile:c:/metacard player/mc.exe"
in the installer. As the file mc.exe is needed to run the installer, this
adds no overhead.
That way,
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Regarding Micro$loth: "Neither shall the Evil Empire dwell with thee" (Job)
John R. Vokey, Chair, Dept. of Psychology Neuroscience, University of
Lethbridge
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>> Could you put a compressed version of mc.exe into a custom property
>> of your stack? Then install it with something like:
>>
>> put decompress(the cpPlayerFile of this stack) into url
>> "binfile:C:/dir/MetaCard Player2"
>>
>> It will add to the size of the installer, but only 700K or so.
>>
>> Apologies if I'm off track here. I missed the beginning of the thread.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Dave Cragg
>
> Brilliant, what an excellent solution - it adds about 600k to my
> 'installer.mc', which is no great problem.
>
> 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?