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Article #1571Re: copying files within windows
From: Joel Spolsky
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1991 16:18
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1991 16:18
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In article <1157@bjcong.bj.co.uk> rkt@bjcong.bj.co.uk (RAKESH TANDON) writes: >I'm about to write a windows installation program and would like >to know the best way of copying files from floppy disk to hard disk. > >The files will be .exe's, .dll's and some text file > >Also is there any way of creating a .GRP file other than via program manager >ie within a windows program. Get the Windows Developers' Notes from Microsoft. They cost $20 and include some source code for writing a setup program, including copying files with a progress indicator, and telling the Program Manager via DDE to add new items. -- Joel Spolsky // And these streets, Quiet as a sleeping army spolsky@cs.yale.edu // Send their battered dreams to heaven. _Paul Simon
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cs.yale.edu!spolsky-joel From: spolsky-joel@cs.yale.edu (Joel Spolsky) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer Subject: Re: copying files within windows Message-ID: <29356@cs.yale.edu> Date: 8 Mar 91 16:18:59 GMT References: <1157@bjcong.bj.co.uk> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: zoo-gw.cs.yale.edu Originator: spolsky@suned.CS.Yale.Edu