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Wik
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Ok, so I have a small exe and a batch file that calls it.
I want to distribute it in one small file and not a zip...either an exe or a batch file. I have tried copying the contents of the exe in notepad and stuck it in a batch file like:

echo alsjhoaiwefqhoifh!$1r1n roipuh1p >exe.exe

But the exe innards have >'s in it so the batch file tries to write to !#$JROT!HNG!OU#$%ht1o34ij`134ori3h4t13o34uinb`i4r`h instead of exe.exe which it doesn't

How do I go about doing this?


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Posted: 11th May 2004 05:20
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wait, you are copying and pasting the exe file, opened in notepad, into a batch file, and expecting it to output to an exe?

must admit that's a new one on me. If you lose or mistranslate even 1 bit of data the whole slew is worthless. Was this ever possible?

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Wik
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Posted: 11th May 2004 05:37
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Quote: "must admit that's a new one on me."


lol, I couldnt think of anything else and i didnt just copy it, I put echo in front and >exe.exe at the end so it writes to the file. I never thought it would work but it was worth a try.


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Posted: 11th May 2004 06:02
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How about a self extracting archive? WinRAR can do that easily, but I don't use winzip. It's easy to distribute because the files can be extracted even if you don't have winrar.


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Posted: 13th May 2004 16:44
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Winzip will also do a self-extracting archive (.exe). The final .exe is only about 40KB bigger than original zip.

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Andy Igoe
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Posted: 13th May 2004 20:36
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Innosetup will do the same thing too but makes for even smaller files than winrar and has the advantage of not having to use that awful Winrar interface.

I would suggest using quotes but of course that will still fail for the same reasons, the only way I can think of would be to call the output stream for the pipe from ... another file. That kinda negates the purpose doesn't it but hey - it would work!


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David T
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Posted: 13th May 2004 21:57 Edited at: 13th May 2004 21:57
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Maybe I'm missing something, why not just distribute the exe and run that?

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Posted: 13th May 2004 22:24
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Quote: "Maybe I'm missing something, why not just distribute the exe and run that?"


yeah, what's the point of putting an exe in a batch file when you don't have any compression routines?



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Posted: 13th May 2004 22:30
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It just seems the batch runs the exe - if it asked for any settings etc. could the EXE ask for them instead?

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