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- Release notes for the Microsoft Office (tm) Document Compressor Kit
-
- Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation, 1996
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-
- NOTE
- ----
- Please read the license agreement for this product. It is in the license.txt
- file.
-
- DESCRIPTION
- ------------
- The Microsoft Office Document Compressor Kit is a freely distributable
- utility package that allows you to build self-extracting program files
- (self-exe's) containing one or more compressed Office (tm) documents.
- The self-exe's will be much smaller than the uncompressed documents,
- especially if they contain a number of graphics. When a self-exe is run on a
- user's machine from a local or network drive, it will extract the document(s)
- to the temp directory in the sequence that they were compressed. It will then
- load the first document into the appropriate application. For example, if the
- first document extracted is an Access (tm) database, it will be loaded into
- Access. If there is only one document, it will be deleted from the temp
- directory when user exits the application. If there are other documents,
- the user will have to open and delete them manually.
-
- SUPPORTED PLATFORMS
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- The self-exe's created with the Document Compressor Kit will run on
- Windows (tm) 3.x, Windows for Workgroups 3.x, Windows 95 and Windows NT
- 3.1 and above. However, the Compressor Kit does NOT support documents with long
- file names.
-
- INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
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- (1) Create a directory for the Compressor Kit files on your hard drive
-
- (2) Move the files listed below to the directory
- makeexe.bat
- cabinet.ddf
- diamond.exe
- unpack.exe
-
- (3) Delete dcompkit.exe
-
- BUILDING A SELF-EXE
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- (1) Open cabinet.ddf in Notepad or another text editor.
-
- (2) Add the full paths and filenames for the documents to compress on
- individual lines below the comment ";Add your files here". If any of the
- documents have long file names, you will need to copy/rename them to 8.3
- short filenames before adding them to cabinet.ddf.
-
- (3) makeexe.bat will create a self-exe called selfext.exe in the Compressor
- Kit directory by default. To change the path and filename of the self-exe,
- open the .bat file in a text editor and substitute the desired path and
- filename in the line below the comment "Rem change selfext.exe...".
-
- (4) Create the self-exe by running makeexe.bat from File Manager, the
- Windows Explorer or the Command Prompt.
-
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