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Re: Organizing the LDraw CD-ROM
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lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
Date: 
Mon, 7 Feb 2000 19:34:36 GMT
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Steve Bliss wrote:
< don't use a VB based installer>

That is the truth!!! In spades. Trust me. Been there, did that, got the
T-Shirt.

Wise InstallMaster would be a good choice for your task.  So would that other
major installation-builder program whose name I can't remember right now.

InstallShield?

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  Re: Organizing the LDraw CD-ROM
 
Larry: (...) [...] (...) Probably. It's a mess to use (IMO), but you can get pretty good results with it. Play well, Jacob (who generally claims total ignorance of Windows) ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL: (URL) > -- (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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  Re: Organizing the LDraw CD-ROM
 
(...) You *don't* want to use a VB-based program as an installer. Before a VB program can run, all the VB-runtime files have to be installed. This means that the setup program has to install multi-megabytes of *system* files before the user sees (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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