pack folder

[XtraCt]

Hello all !

I have some little program which I want to pack ...

The program includes EXE file and alot of INI, TXT, HTML, and more

I want to pack all those files to 1 file and when I will execute this file it will run the main EXE file but without extract it ...
the EXE has to use the INI and the TXT files

There is anyway to do it ?

thanks to helpers !

[PeejAvery]

Impossible without extracting the necessary files. That is just the Windows works. Mac OS X, however, works exactly as you described.

[XtraCt]

The EXE file is mIRC.exe

I built some scripts but I don't people to copy them or edit them
so I want to lock the whole folder and just to execute the mIRC.exe
with permission to read and write into files ...

How should I do it ?

thanks again ...

[PeejAvery]

Any file on the local machine can be accessed with admin permissions. Once again, that is the way an OS works. Even if you have them remotely accessed, the local machine must read the scripts. This means that it gains access again. Even read only access gives a machine the ability to copy.

Just like there is no such thing as 100% effective piracy evasion, there is no real solution here to keep the person from reading/copying those scripts.

[XtraCt]

there is any option to compile those files to DLL or something ?

[PeejAvery]

Scripts have to be readable by an interpreter. Applications, can have functions and resources packed into a DLL. However, even DLLs can be read and edited by a HEX editor.