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From: u545731798ea@deneb.ucdavis.edu (L. Greg DeMichillie)
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Subject: Re: Reading 'install scripts'...
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Date: 27 Oct 88 04:00:20 GMT
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In article <14298@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> viking@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Jon W. Backstrom) writes:
>This is a potentially ignorant question, but is it possible to read
>the contents of an install script in order to tell what it will do
>when it gets executed?
>
>I get install scripts with about every software package I purchase and
>I'm never quite sure what the script is doing.  If there is a software
>tool that reads scripts, I'd like to know about it.
>
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>Jon W. Backstrom             "Yah sure...we gonna have fun, you bet!"

Actually, you can use ResEdit to view installer scripts.  Scripts are stored
as resources of type 'insc'.  Each insc resource is just a list of strings
indicating the resource type and numbers to be copied.  To make things even
easier, there is an insc template installed in ResEdit (at least in version
1.2b2) that allows you to directly edit the insc.

A word of caution: you should of course be careful when mucking around with
installer scripts, if the manufacturer wanted a particular resource to be
installed and you don't install it, the program may get downright nasty about
it.

Have fun

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