[izpack-users] Using Compression in Packs

[Hal Vaughan]

On Thursday 04 May 2006 11:55, Bartz, Klaus wrote:
...
> I think, I have not really understand what you mean...
> The double click action will be written by an installation of a
> program which handles files with that extension. May be the default
> for .jar is to call a VM with -jar. I prefer winzip because more
> often I must look into a jar file as execute it with -jar and
> no more params :-) Therefore double click operation is not
> always the same.
> For execution I prefer also a batch file.

Klaus,

Just so I'm clear, do you write a batch file, then have someone download 
the batch file AND the initial install jar, then run the batch file 
that will perform the "java -jar install.jar" command?

If this is what you're doing, I was just looking into self-extracting 
archives and found information on how to do that for Unix and Windows.  
It would mean a different install.jar for each os, since it means 
adding a special header for Windows and a different one for Unix.  (The 
method used for Unix uses standard commands like "tail" so I'd think 
there's a good chance it'd work on the Mac as well.)

If you're interested, I can post links to some pages on it.  I'll be 
testing it soon and I'll be glad to post my results.

Hal