General purpose Win95/98/NT installation /uninstall utility. It will check available space on the chosen drive, create target directories and copy files to them and the Windows directories, create the Program group and start the target application. There is a separate version of this program for Win3.1x systems.
First unzip distribution file xxxxxxx.zip to some temporary directory. Start Setup program. Choose Directory and program Group or just leave it as it is. If chosen directory already exists, Setup asks if you wish to use existing directory (and eventually overwrite existing files). Click on [Start Installation]. When finished click on Application icon.
NOTES:
SETUP.EXE is copied to the target directory to act as UNINSTALL. It will delete files specified in SETUP list and remove its Group. After that it will try to delete the target directory. If there are other files in that directory it will not delete them or the directory. Setup will ask before removing files from Windows system directories. If you installed icons in one of existing groups (shared with other applications) answer No when Setup ask to remove that group.
1. Copy Setup.exe to a work directory (say, C:\WORK). Then copy ALL of your application files to that work directory.
2. Run Setup. Double-click twice on "Ssetup" logo text in the middle of the picture on the left. This opens Design form window.
3. Write a README.TXT by clicking [Ed.Readme] button. This file will be readable during installation clicking the Setup [Readme/Licence] button.
4. Edit SETUP.INI file which is top-right on Design form. Change it to suit your application (see sample below).
5. Quick way to build Output file list (which is located bottom-right on Design form) is to click [Make>] button and the list will be made. By default all EXE, TXT and HTM files will get an Icon in the group. All DLL files will be copied to Windows system directory and all other files in the Target directory. When done, click [Save All] and [Close] buttons.
6. Click on [ > ZIP] if you wish to produce single
archive file for distribution of your program. To be able to produce archive,
Pkzip.exe must be installed on your computer (you may get Pkzip
ver. 2.50 for DOS, which will support long file names, from www.pkware.com
and unpack it to Windows directory).
If you do not use Pkzip you may create ZIP archive using WinZip (www.winzip.com)
or other archiver. WinZip utility may be also used to create single EXE
file installation package.
7. Try your Installation by running Setup. Try Uninstall by clicking on Uninstall icon in target group. This testing is best done on another computer - to be sure that all necessary files have been included in package.
1. Output file list is stored in SETUP.INI in an UNREADABLE form. It represents files and directories to be installed. From Design form it can be created in 3 ways:
Files SETUP.EXE and SETUP.INI must be listed in the output file list. Do not distribute other Setup files.
Editing of entries is done in Edit line on the bottom middle of the design form. Clicking on Available file list or Output file list copies clicked line to edit line. Also radio-button above edit line shows what will be done with this file/ directory entry. You may click radio button to change "do what character". After editing you may put that line in Output file list by clicking [Add>] or [Replace>].
2. Apart from Target directory additional directories may also be created:
3. Compressed files support
If file extension is finished with _, it is supposed that it was compressed with 'compress -r filename' command (Microsoft COMPRESS.EXE DOS utility). Ssetup will uncompress those files (File.ex_ --> File.exe). Do not compress Readme.txt so that user can get this information before installation.
4. Multiple source media support
When making installation on diskettes, there is a size limit of each media. Before doing this option edit INI file line: Source_Size=value. Value is the size of diskette in kB (if this feature is not needed, set value to zero). To create source installation files for Diskette1, Diskette2, click on button [Save All] then [>A:]. Files will be created on work directory in subdirectories Disk1, Disk2,..etc. You can copy those subdirectories to individual diskettes. Testing of installation may be done executing Setup.exe in disk1 subdirectory. Keep in mind that Setup would not split a file larger than diskette size to sevaral chunks (use compression on those files).
[main]
ApplicName=Dummy
Def_path=c:\Dummy
Def_Group=Ssetup Dummy Group
Head_Text=Dummy Application, ver. 1.00
Source_Size=0
SpaceNeed=155
- sample SETUP.LST (does NOT go in distribution):
;----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; SSETUP- comment lines begin with ; in colon 1 ; Text on all lines must begin at column 1. ; + = copy & icon, - = copy, = = copy WinDir, ; . = no copy, ! = delete, > = run, \ = dir ; ;------------- files for Setup/ Uninstall ------------------------------ +SETUP.EXE ;copy and makes icon for SETUP (for Uninstalling) -SETUP.INI ;this file is copied and updated in target directory ; ; ------------ list of files to copy/ remove -------------------------- ; !DUMMY.TMP ;delete if exist on target dir. from previous installation +README.TXT +DUMMY.EXE ;copy & make icon >DUMMY.EXE ;run this after installation (must also be after +) -DUMMY.RES ;copy only =DUMMY.INI ;copy to Windows directory .DUMMY.TMP ;for uninstall-file generated later (by application) -DOC\FILE_ID.DIZ ;put in sub-directory of target directory ; -\DATA\PIPI\F.DAT ;copy to directory on target drive _DUMY.DLL ; copy to Windows \SYSTEM directory ; ;------------- make Directories ---------------------------------------------- ; \.DOC ;create extra sub-directory in Target directory \\DATA\PIPI ;create absolute directory on Target drive ;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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