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From: wade@sdacs.ucsd.EDU (Wade Blomgren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Reading 'install scripts'...
Summary: Use ResEdit.
Keywords: installer
Message-ID: <51@sdacs.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 27 Oct 88 00:12:32 GMT
References: <14298@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Organization: UCSD Academic Computing Services
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In article <14298@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>, 
viking@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Jon W. Backstrom) writes:

> 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.
> 

If you are talking about scripts for the Apple Installer program, they
can be read with ResEdit.  In each script file is a resource of type
'insc', ie "installer script".  ResEdit has a fairly comprehensive
template for editing this resource type, and someone with a reasonable 
understanding of what resources are all about should be able to follow 
along.  The format of an 'insc' resource is documented in Technical Note 75.

Wade Blomgren
wade@sdacs.ucsd.edu