Re: [XBoard-devel] Windows Installer

[Tim Mann]

Adding .txt could be a good idea.  One problem is that the text files
pretty much all have Unix line endings (LF only), so some Windows
programs like Notepad that expect CRLF will choke on them anyway.

On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 12:55:17 -0800, Mark Ioli <address@hidden> wrote:
> Sounds good, I'll start working on that. Another option I found in NSIS 
> is that I could rename files as they are installed, so for ascii text 
> files like COPYRIGHT or COPYING or NEWS I could rename them to have a 
> .txt extension in Windows, so people could just double click on them to 
> open as opposed to getting an "Open With" dialog when trying to open a 
> file with no program association. Sound ok or leave it as is?
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> Tim Mann wrote:
> 
> > If I rememember right, newer versions of InstallShield give you an
> > option at the end to see what files were left behind in the directory
> > that prevented it from being deleted. (Well, at least it gives you the
> > name of the nonempty directory.)  If it's not too much trouble, I think
> > it would be good to list the remaining files, plus have a dialog that
> > says "Delete these files too? [Yes] [No]".
> 


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