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 Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 1:13 pm Post subject: Getting around EMAIL SYSTEMS deleting *.EXEs & *.ZIPs |
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Updates and new versions of my applications are distributed as small emails containing self-extracting zip files. This has been fine to date, but as more and more email systems ban both ZIP and EXE files, I am having difficulty distributing updates.
Is there a way to make a particular extension executable on a users' system? For instance, all files ending in *.FLE (i.e. SETUP.FLE) run as executables. I use INNO SETUP to build installation files and I can use this to add entries to the Users' registries. BUT what would the registry entry for the *.FLE extension contain?
Any guidance appreciated?!
Thanks in advance
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| Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 1:18 pm Post subject: |
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Hey Andy,
While I have no doubt about your intentions, I'm not
sure we should answer something like this in a public
forum...
I'm sure you can understand the potential for harm. 
Cheers, Mac 
[EDIT] BTW, this was the part I was referring to:
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Is there a way to make a particular extension executable
on a users' system?
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| Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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You can use the script I wrote to create CAB files, which are native to any
Windows system. I'll post an example for you in a few minutes.
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arcray
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| Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 2:11 pm Post subject: |
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You can use the script I wrote to create CAB files, which are native to any
Windows system. I'll post an example for you in a few minutes.
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Yes, that would help?!
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| Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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One simple idea is to send your file a say setup.rle or some other extension of your choice. Now in your program give a update button.
Ask your user to place the file in your app directory and press update. Now your app will rename the file to a exe and run it.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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| I suggest offering them a URL where they can download the software at. This allows them to optionally choose to download the upgrade or not. Plus you do not clog up their email box if they did not want the update. |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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I agree with Prakash - sending updates through e-mail is not the best
option, however, you can send an update notification through e-mail,
and as Prakash said, just give them a link to download the update.
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arcray
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| Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 10:24 am Post subject: |
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Most of my users do not have internet access. And the file I send out each week is a key that allows the continued use of the main software...
And it also contains weekly rate changes which must be updated on all machines that use the software
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| Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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| arcray wrote: | | Most of my users do not have internet access. |
How do you want to E-mail it then? If you use internal E-mail, I suppose you can ask the network administrator if he could remove the ZIP and EXE file blocks from internal communications...
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Are you still interested in the .CAB creator code?
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| Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 2:45 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Are you still interested in the .CAB creator code? |
Yes, I am!
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Here you go.
It requires VDS 5... do you have VDS 5?
Also you will need do download the CAB10.DLL, which you can get in
the following package:
http://freezingfire.vdsworld.com/files/cab10.cab
| Code: | Title CAB Creator
DIALOG CREATE,Cab Creator,-1,0,328,207
DIALOG ADD,STYLE,BOLD,,,B,,
DIALOG ADD,GROUP,FilesToCompress,9,10,307,185,Files to Compress
DIALOG ADD,TABLE,CabList,26,18,291,133,File Name[110]|Location,,COLUMNSORT
DIALOG ADD,BUTTON,Add,162,18,101,24,Add File
DIALOG ADD,BUTTON,Remove,162,120,101,24,Remove Selected
DIALOG ADD,BUTTON,Create,162,222,88,24,Create CAB,,BOLD
DIALOG SHOW
:Evloop
dialog enable,cablist
dialog enable,add
dialog enable,remove
dialog enable,create
wait event
goto @event()
:AddBUTTON
%Z = @filedlg("All Files (*.*)|*.*",,,MULTI)
if @not(@ok())
goto evloop
end
list create,5
list assign,5,%Z
%x = 0
repeat
%F = @item(5,%x)
if @both(@ok(),@file(%F))
%%ext = @ext(%F)
if @both(@unequal(%%ext,"exe"),@unequal(%%ext,"ico"))
%%type = @regread(ROOT,"."%%ext,,FILE_TYPE_DOES_NOT_EXIST)
if @unequal(%%type,FILE_TYPE_DOES_NOT_EXIST)
%%icon = @regread(ROOT,%%type\DefaultIcon,,FILE_ICON_DOES_NOT_EXIST)
else
%%icon = #other.bmp
end
else
%%icon = %F
end
if @not(@path(%%icon))@equal(%%icon,FILE_ICON_DOES_NOT_EXIST)
if @not(@ext(%F))
list add,CabList,@name(%F)@tab()@path(%F)|#other.bmp
end
else
list add,CabList,@name(%F)"."@ext(%F)@tab()@path(%F)|%%icon
end
end
%%icon = ""
%x = @succ(%x)
until @equal(%x,@count(5))
list close,5
goto evloop
:RemoveBUTTON
if @item(CABList)
list delete,CABList
end
goto evloop
:CreateBUTTON
dialog disable,cablist
dialog disable,add
dialog disable,remove
dialog disable,create
if @zero(@count(CABList))
warn You must add files first
goto evloop
end
# Make full paths list
%x = 0
list create,4
repeat
option fieldsep,@tab()
PARSE "%%name;%%path",@item(CABList,%x)
option fieldsep,|
%%fpath = %%path%%name
list add,4,%%fpath
%x = @succ(%x)
until @equal(%x,@count(CABList))
%%CabFile = @filedlg("CAB Files (*.cab)|*.cab",Save As,,SAVE)
if @not(@ok())
goto evloop
end
if @unequal(@ext(%%CabFile),"cab")
%%CabFile = %%CabFile".cab"
end
loadlib cab10.dll
%A = @lib(cab10,CABCOMPRESSINITIALIZE,INT:)
if @zero(%A)
warn Error initializing file
goto evloop
end
%%HCabFile = @lib(cab10,CABCREATE,INT:,STR:%%CabFile)
if @zero(%%HCabFile)
warn Unable to create file
goto evloop
end
%x = 0
repeat
%%item = @item(4,%x)
%A = @lib(cab10,CABADDFILE,INT:,INT:%%HCabFile,STR:%%item,STR:%%item)
if @zero(%A)
warn Failure adding file:@cr()%%item
end
%x = @succ(%x)
until @equal(%x,@count(4))
list close,4
%A = @lib(cab10,CABCLOSE,INT:,INT:%%HCabFile)
%A = @lib(cab10,CABCOMPRESSTERMINATE,INT:)
freelib cab10.dll
if @not(@zero(@file(%%CabFile,Z)))
info CAB File Successfully Created at:@cr()%%CabFile
else
warn An unknown error ocurred sometime when creating the cabinet file. Try saving in a different location.
end
goto evloop
:Close
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 9:06 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for that! I will find it very useful for future projects. In the meantime I am using the executable suffix route...
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