what makes a file "installed"?

[Erik Hansen]

> Mark Talluto wrote:
> > On May 21, 2004, at 10:17 PM, Erik Hansen
> wrote:
> >> is there any way to automate the whole deal
> >> and put it in a button "Install Me!"
> >> along the lines of Alice in the Looking
> Glass?
> > 
> > You can put the whole installer into a custom
> property and spit it out, 
> > run the installer, and delete it when it is
> all over.  I have done this 
> > a few times for installing fonts.
> 
> An excellent suggestion.
> 
> Also, most installers allow you to launch other
> installers as part of 
> the installation sequence.  So even if just
> another file on the CD, it's 
> fairly common for the QT installer to be
> piggy-backed this way as just 
> another step in the installation.
> 
> -- 
>   Richard Gaskin
>   Fourth World Media Corporation

what makes a file "installed"
as opposed to "loaded" or "copied to"
the desktop?

thank you,

Erik Hansen

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erik at erikhansen.org    http://www.erikhansen.org


	
		
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