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Re: autorun reader on CD

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From: D.W. Frommer II
Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 01:14
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Mark, 

Can you clarify some things for me?  

You say in your faq that the AcroRead licence demands that you include the installer for Reader. Is that the exe file RP505enu.exe that I DL'd?  

Is it included just so that a user can install reader on his Hd if he so wishes? Or does it have some function in allowing Reader to run off the CD?  

I ask this because in the very next statement you say: 

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I have not been able to test on a totally ?virgin? Windows 95/98 PC but as far as I can tell, the Reader application does not install files to any other folders such as the \Windows\System\ folder. It creates the Registry entries it needs when run from the CD for the first time on a non Reader v4 system." 

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That stement also raises another question...if a person has Acrobat and/or Reader on their HD, presumably the necessary changes have already been made to the registry. So how does one test an autorun CD? How do you determine if it will run on a "virgin" system? The obvious answer is that you test it on a virgin system but not everyone has immediate access to one. Surely, setting up an autorun CD can't be that problematic? 

Thanks for all your help, BTW... 

DWFII
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