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Number   :  4768
Date     :  2003-06-06
Author   :  Ray McCormick
Subject  :  Re: Installing Xxcopy
Size(KB) :  2


--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, Kan Yabumoto  wrote:
> 
> Ray wrote:
> 
> > On 04/06/2003 Kan wrote (in thread 'xxcopy to CD-RW')
> > "That is, the code you supplied already handles the
> > fairly common "mistake" of user double-clicking the
> > INSTALL.BAT icon from the Windows Explorer."
> >
> > Why is this a "mistake"?
> 
> Because the accompanying documentation specifically
> says you must invoke the INSTALL.BAT program after
> making the directory current. That is, unless
> you unzip the download file into the Desktop directory
> (which is not commonly done and should be avoided
> to keep your desktop clean), it will not work.
> 
> I called it a "mistake" because it is a method that
> does not work and we warn it in the accompanying doc.
> In my opinion, doing what many people commonly do
> is not always the right thing, especially when the
> instruction says not to.
> 
> 
> 
> > I have always downloaded applications into a new
> > folder (not on the path) and unzip into that same
> > folder. In Windows Explorer double-click on the zip
> > file and if it doesn't self extract unzip into
> > the same folder with Pentazip or Winzip or whatever
> > opens. The files are then available at a later date,
> 
> With GUI-based applications, it makes sense. But,
> with XXCOPY like most console-based program,
> installation is nothing more than placing the files
> in certain directory.
> 
> 
>
> Kan Yabumoto

Hi

Many thanks for the rapid reply, though I don't quite 
follow your reasoning when you appear to claim "if I 
say it won't work, it won't" 

My posting contained the statements:
"In the case of xxcopy, installation is then as simple as 
double-clicking on the 'install.bat' file (in the Windows 
Explorer folder still open). 

"I have not had any problems with this and have just 
installed 2.84.4 by this process.."

I should be more explicit and say that I have *always* 
installed Xxcopy in this way without problem.

Surely, if 'install.bat' is run in this way it will first 
look in the same folder for the referenced 'xxcopy.exe' 
before looking in (other) folders on the path. This is 
quite different from invoking 'install.bat' or 
'xxcopy.exe /install' in a (so-called) dos box. 

Just in case it makes any difference, I am using W2kSP3, 
though I have used this procedure with WinME; 
downloads are to a new sub-folder of 
F:\Internet\InternetDownloads\Programs&Updates\

Ray



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