No, I don't have a floppy disk that needs more respect.

I have a project in the works that might have a companion CD if it
doesn't end up being too expensive. One of the things I want to have
on the CD is a self-extracting file that creates a bootable floppy
disk.

I have the shareware/demo version of Winimage which does just what I
want, but when running the self-extracting file, it puts up a message
designed to embarass me saying that since the file was created with
teh shareware version, it can't be distributed. Pay $30 and the
message doesn't appear.

I wouldn't hesitate to register the program except for the fact that I
don't ever expect to use it more than this one time, and I'm not sure
I'd even sell $30 worth of CDs to pay for it. Of course I can afford
it, it's just a matter of principle (Yeah, I know, it's like "I don't
want to buy the CD since I'll probably only listen to the music
once.")

So does anyone know of a truly free program that will do what I want?
Alternatively, is there someone friendly out there who has the
registered version of Winimage and would be willing to make a
self-extracting file if I sent you a source floppy?

It's about audio, and it's not a copyright violation, so you'd be
doing a service to (a small portion of) the community.

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Mike Rivers wrote:

I have a project in the works that might have a companion CD if it
doesn't end up being too expensive. One of the things I want to have
on the CD is a self-extracting file that creates a bootable floppy
disk.

So does anyone know of a truly free program that will do what I want?

Rawrite is pretty much the standard for floppy images--not sure how they handle self-extractors, though.

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:10:35 -0400, Mike Rivers wrote:


No, I don't have a floppy disk that needs more respect.

I have a project in the works that might have a companion CD if it
doesn't end up being too expensive. One of the things I want to have
on the CD is a self-extracting file that creates a bootable floppy
disk.

I have the shareware/demo version of Winimage which does just what I
want, but when running the self-extracting file, it puts up a message
designed to embarass me saying that since the file was created with
teh shareware version, it can't be distributed. Pay $30 and the
message doesn't appear.

I wouldn't hesitate to register the program except for the fact that I
don't ever expect to use it more than this one time, and I'm not sure
I'd even sell $30 worth of CDs to pay for it. Of course I can afford
it, it's just a matter of principle (Yeah, I know, it's like "I don't
want to buy the CD since I'll probably only listen to the music
once.")

So does anyone know of a truly free program that will do what I want?
Alternatively, is there someone friendly out there who has the
registered version of Winimage and would be willing to make a
self-extracting file if I sent you a source floppy?

It's about audio, and it's not a copyright violation, so you'd be
doing a service to (a small portion of) the community.

Hiya. It's not too hard to roll your own autorun.inf if no other solutions
present themselves.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...oplay_cmds.asp

the 'open' command should do what you want.

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 19:53:18 +0100, philicorda wrote:

Oops. Sorry, totally misunderstood your post.