> > > > The goal is to run AbiWord off of a USB
> thumb/pen drive.
> the exe was somewhere about 4 MB before compression, and
> there was just a
> single exe which had been built with Microsoft Visual
> Studio.
Sorry I should have mentioned that the 6.8MB was for all of the included files not just the exe. The abiword.dll and the dictionary take up most of the space.
> I'm not sure I follow exactly what you are saying here, but
> if you run UPX
> on a binary it is still a .EXE file and can still be run
> without needing
> to uncompress it.
Sorry, I should have clarified the unzipping/install program is just to get it on the drive once it is on there it can just be run.
> > I am 99% sure they came from the program I tried
> running it from the
> > thumb drive on a system that does not AbiWord installed
> and then
> > searched with Regedit for Abi and found two(3?) Abiword
> related entries.
>
> If you can provide the keys it should not be too hard to
> find them in the code, in fact you can probably find out yourself.
> If I were you I would download the abiword source code (the
> tar.gz bundle) and unpack it on your windows machine. Then I would take a
> small part of the registry key lik the key value and then use the windows
> search tool to "search for files containing text" inside the Abiword source code files.
>
> Given that the installer is taking care of file associations
> and it
> doesn't seem like the built in file association stuff is
> ever going to be
> fixed (bug 376) it will probably make sense to disable it
> anyway.
Great tip, will do.
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