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At 02:32 PM 9/23/99 , Dan Moniz wrote:
>I'd like to take an in-depth look at the paper and I've been reveiwing
>the content at the URL you cited. Is the an ASCII plaintext copy of
>what you have so far could be made available?

I will make plain text available in parallel. Expect an announcement soon. Btw, just out of curiosity, why?

>Also, some of you on the list may remember me having some NT
>issues. I've since moved off of NT as my main development platform
>(well, I had anyways, but I was trying E in NT first), but I've modified
>the stock Setup.bat file in the Win32 distribution to better support
>NT.
>
>Now, I was never able to get the PIF files to work, however, elmer.bat
>and e.bat worked fine. So, this modified Setup.bat may not be of much
>use since all it does is install shortcuts to the e and elmer PIFs in
>the Start menu, but I thought it would be nice to have it around
>anyway:

Thanks Dan!

These raises two issues someone here might be able to help with:

1. What does it take to make a .pif work on NT? If the answer is "nothing", why might these pifs not be working.
2. What should I "if" on in my .bat files so I can use Dan's logic on WinNT but the older logic on Win9x?. Which should work in Win2000? Is there a better way to handle this?

Closely related to #1: Is there any known way to generate a .pif from a program? This would be necessary to write a real installer. Alternatively, what are the Mozilla-compatible open-source install programs, whether or not they're Java specific, as long as they generate working .pifs?

         Cheers,
         --MarkM

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