SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS: If you write programs for the DOS market, you may have discovered that small, cheap, and fast installation engines for DOS software are hard to find. CWINST aims to correct that oversight by providing a small, feature-packed, simple installation package: * No scripts! * Easily customized--you simply edit an INI file and run the included make utility to create a unique setup executable. * Small--the install program is only about 70kb. * Internal file compression--no need for an external utility! * Supports installation from any media, including floppy disk, hard disk, network volumes and CD-ROM. * Supports multiple-disk installations, up to 999 volumes. * CWINST can modify the user's PATH, LASTDRIVE, FILES and BUFFERS statements in the AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files. Or, if the user prefers, CWINST can make modifications to _copies_ of the AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files, leaving the originals alone. * Can create installation logs that may be used for an eventual uninstall utility (to be announced later, perhaps). * Can optionally reboot the user's PC after modifying AUTOEXEC.BAT and/or CONFIG.SYS (DOS and Win 3.x platforms only). * The developer can specify an executable or DOS command to be run after a successful installation. * CWINST automatically displays one of README.1ST, README.TXT, README., READ.ME, FILE_ID.DIZ or VENDINFO.DIZ (in that order) after a successful installation. The developer can use the internal viewer or can specify an external one. * CWINST automatically displays contact information for the developer after a successful installation. * CWINST incorporates a high degree of self-validation to help insure that the install set your users receive has not been modified. REQUIREMENTS: ============ CWINST requires an IBM PC-AT compatible computer, DOS v3.0 or better, about 360kb of disk space to install, and approximately 200kb free conventional memory to run.

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