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cutesy
April 1st, 2002, 11:56 PM
Hi, can anyone please help. I am very vexed about how to automate the installation of the following and I am not sure how I can do thAt. Can any kind soul please advise thanks! How can I go about creating the script, what lanaguage to use, any utitlity program that can do that, etc???

I need to create a setup file that will automatically run 1 executable file which is a setup file that is commercially created and will install a system driver, after that, it will then run another executable file that will install another software called Extend5Player on a directory specified(chosen) by the user. Next I need to capture this particular directory which has a subfolder called Extensions where I need to copy a .dll file Pip.dll to this particular Extensions folder where the Extend5Player has been installed.
After that I need to prompt the user to choose a folder where they want to copy all the main files (which are not executable files but textfiles,zip files) into. The script will be able to automatically unzip the zip files and extract into the folder which the user has chosen

mjxnjx
April 11th, 2002, 01:59 PM
You might want to speak to InstallShield. They have many options on creating installers that can do a lot of what you're talking about; including install-to-web.

http://www.installshield.com



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