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Article #2513Re: Self installing
From: a.stranger
Date: Tue, 07 May 1991 03:41
Date: Tue, 07 May 1991 03:41
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In article <5609@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi> aku@tik.vtt.fi (Arto Kujala) writes:
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>Is there a easy way to make own win3-applications self-installing.
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>I mean: one DOS-command copies files from floppies, associates documents and creates a program item icon?
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>Copying is easy to do, but how about the icon&associating?
icons : send a DDE message to PM . this
was covered by Petzold in PC Mag a while back . associating : edit
WIN.INI . it may be possible to do this via DDE ; i dunno .
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