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Re: Equal Distribution

• Posted by CK Lester <cklester at yahoo.com> Mar 20, 2001
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I've got a customized install program that requires the compressed files be
in the "files" folder on the floppy drive. The installer makes sure the
template files get to the right place. There's a bit of hand-holding during
the install, because a lot of people, though familiar with the applications,
aren't familiar with the use of templates in those apps.

-ck

> On 20 Mar 2001, at 5:56, CK Lester wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the help, David, and others...
> >
> > An important requirement here is that I can replace a file on one of the
> > diskettes if ever necessary... like for updates. So, they have to exist
on
> > the disk(s) as separate files.
>
> I just had a thought,, what if you zipped them, or used some other
compression? As
> one large compressed file, sector size wouldn't matter anymore. Even
uncompressed,
> if they were appended to each other, they'd use entire sectors too, except
for the last
> file. You could expand them to the user's harddrive for faster and more
reliable access
> at install time.
>
> Kat