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Fat EXE or setup program

#1 Datalore

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Posted 08 April 2004 - 04:51 PM

I go both ways on this one. I like fat exe's for small little utility programs, the kinds I can just throw in the system32 folder and call via command prompt whenever necessary. But for full-fledge programs like Photoshop, I like installers. Whats your preference?

#2 Jono

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Posted 08 April 2004 - 05:09 PM

i would agree with you, the smaller utilitys should be 'fat exe's' and larger programs as installers

#3 CuBie

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Posted 08 April 2004 - 05:25 PM

Jono, on Apr 8 2004, 05:09 PM, said:

i would agree with you, the smaller utilitys should be 'fat exe's' and larger programs as installers

Yep! I agree!

#4 Doggie

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Posted 09 April 2004 - 03:13 AM

fat exe for me.. some installers even have the balls to get the installed files from the net to install.. rather one file downloaded so u dont need to be on the net all the time (56k person here