YIKES user.exe stupidity.

Chris Faylor cgf@cygnus.com
Fri May 14 14:29:00 GMT 1999


On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 02:18:56PM -0700, Geoffrey Noer wrote:
>On Fri, May 14, 1999, DJ Delorie wrote:
>[...]
>> Hmmm... Anyone want to volunteer to rename their user.exe to
>> usertools.exe and try installing it?  If not, I'll either try it
>> myself, or wait and see if anyone complains ;-)
>
>This isn't a problem.  You can rename installshield exes with
>impunity...

Unless someone has built an explicit dependency on the filename
into the executable.

cgf


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