Installer avoidance

#1 · November 21, 1997, 3:52 pm

Posted by: RMMerrill <RMMerrill@...>

My finished application consists of one application file and one help
file. These both easily fit on a floppy disk.

The user can easily copy the application to their hard drive, but how can
I get the help file into the user's preferences folder?

I realize that there are several commercial installers to do just this,
but it seems like such over-kill for just two files.

Is there an easy way to create an application that will copy these two
files to their ultimate destinations- i.e. an installer, but a simplified
one that can be written in FB?

Otherwise it seems I have to buy the Smaller Installer and Compact Pro
for a total of about $200.00 to do the job.

What say ye, list members?

TIA,

-= Bob (-: