rcleon@lso.win.tue.nl (Leon Oninckx) (07/18/90)
We have a couple of campuslicensed software packages we want to distribute to a selected group of users. These packages are rather large, about 4 MB each. We have installed the software on one machine and want to use some sort of tree-backup/restore mechanism to create a fast-and-easy installation distribution. I thought about creating self-extracting ZIParchives that are as large as a diskette (either 360k or 1.44M) wherein the files and pathnames are stored, but there's no way to specify the archivelength. Again, it has to be an EASY installation, so I can't use PC-TOOLS PCBACKUP or a similar program because they're too difficult for most users. DOS BACKUP would be nice, but that doesn't give me any filecompression facilities. Can someone give me a hint on how to create such an easy-installation distribution? Please reply to me via email. Thanks, -Leon -- | Leon Oninckx, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands | email : rcleon@win.tue.nl, rcleon@heitue51.bitnet, rcleon@urc.tue.nl