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To: TraderAlan who wrote (5536)	1/24/1999 3:55:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Yes, Installshield is much more than self-extracting zip files. Chances are pretty good that the last pc product you installed used Installshield. I use it for my own products. Installshield Express is a limited version of installshield. It does not have the vast array of options that the full Installshield has, but it is plenty capable for installing simple products. What you propose is about as simple as it gets. You can specify the default location for install. In my install setup, the user gets to change the location. I THINK you can specify fixed locations for certain files, but not sure offhand. If so, that would be the whole install in this case. Installshield will create all the directories it needs. Sure, if you know the full path to the GIFs you could access them on the local HD with HTML from the server. Better choose an unusual fixed name, though. C:\Win probably wouldn't be too hot an idea <gg>, and c:\Images would be nearly as bad, I think. Not sure what you mean by a relative HD path for PCs. It's an HTML thing, right? HTML relative paths are relative to the HTML source file on the server that makes the file reference. Absolute paths are absolute in the context of the HTML interpreter (browser), namely, the user's system, so C:\xxx refers to the local C drive. Or so I understand. I have only done it with HTML from my local system, but the browser shouldn't be sensitive to the location of the HTML itself except for a relative path reference.