Re: Reading 'install scripts'...

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From: Kent Borg
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1988 22:11

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In article <14298@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> viking@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Jon W. Backstrom) writes:
>This is a potentially ignorant question, but is it possible to read
>the contents of an install script in order to tell what it will do
>when it gets executed?
...

ResEdit (at least newer versions) has a template for looking at `insc'
(I hope I got that right) resources.  That plus the tech note (67?) on
the installer will get you started, but warning: it's not easy.

Kent Borg
kent@lloyd.uucp
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hscfvax!lloyd!kent

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From: kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Reading 'install scripts'...
Keywords: installer
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Date: 27 Oct 88 22:11:55 GMT
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