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Article #18Re: WEB INSTALL - 100$ REWARD
From: Steve Wiser
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 00:00
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 00:00
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Youseful at www.youseful.com will do just this. Check it out. I own this set of Delphi components. Steve On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 16:54:15 +0300, "AIMS" <aims@ibm.net> wrote: >Please Reply only to aims@ibm.net > >We are looking for an application that will enable us to update our software >package from the web to our client installations. >We have a software apllication that has some 100 + .exe files that are >updated regularly (up to 10 executables may change daily). >Our ideal solution would be for our customers to log in to our web site >where a process would search the customer's installation (whether on their >local PC or on their server) and check whether there are any new updates. >The customer would then have the option to download and install the updated >files automatically. >We have tried most of the commercially available install packages without >much success. >Additionally,we want the abilty to install in the server a new version of an >executable while it is already open by another user. >Back in the old days of DOS as soon as the EXE was loaded in memory it was >freed up and I could replace it any time (except when the EXE had overlays). >Now we have to tell the customer 'please close the executable so that I can >install new version' something which is not easy because the executable on >the server is open by about 20-30 users. >However when I initially installed my Delphi compiler the SETUP.EXE that was >executed was loaded into memory and released from the server. I could see >from my Novell and NT console that the SETUP.EXE was no longer in use. > >How did these guys do it? Could it be because their SETUP.EXE was only 42K >and my EXE is 2MB? > >A $100 reward is offered to anyone that can assist in finding a suitable >solution. > >Please reply to aims@ibm.net > > > > > > > > > >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1056f7,57fb27dab6d4c4e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid1056f7,public X-Google-Thread: 102788,57fb27dab6d4c4e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid102788,public X-Google-Thread: fb505,57fb27dab6d4c4e1 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb505,public X-Google-Thread: fa91f,57fb27dab6d4c4e1 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa91f,public X-Google-Thread: 105df1,57fb27dab6d4c4e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid105df1,public X-Google-Thread: f5214,57fb27dab6d4c4e1 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5214,public X-Google-Thread: 10a146,57fb27dab6d4c4e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a146,public From: slwiserr@wisersoft.com_ (Steve Wiser) Subject: Re: WEB INSTALL - 100$ REWARD Date: 1999/06/16 Message-ID: <3766f6c0.7094479@news.erols.com> X-Deja-AN: 490067264 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <37664c73@news.uk.ibm.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@rcn.com X-Trace: CRbXygl4InKqHf0lQcyFezqx9k/bZcnGIpMUPkI1jmk= Organization: Wisers Software Solutions Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Jun 1999 01:05:25 GMT Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware.gdp,alt.online-service.delphi,borland.public.delphi.activex.controls.writing,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities.win95,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.networks