i'm getting my setup program to work great in that it can copy the .EXE files to a place on the hard disk. the only thing is, when i put the program onto a floppy disk, the files are extracted not to the hard disk but onto the floppy disk, like its ignoring my CHDIR$ command.
hears how it goes...
my setup program displays a file path to the user, if he/she dont like it, they can change it.
The file path gets saved in a file for later use (it has to be used by a different program later on and the COMMON SHARED AS STRING wont work cos I have too many of them.)
After a few setup screens, the files are ready to be copied so I use the following code
OPEN Allocation FR NPUT AS #1
INPUT #1, UserDirectory$
CLOSE
OPEN <file to be copied> FOR BINARY AS #1
CHDIR UserDirectory$ e.g. C:\Progra`1 (program files)
OPEN <file to be put on HDD> FOR BINARY AS #1
Then the code copies the file from the current directory to the one set by the user.
This works fine as long as the setup program and the program to be moved are on the hard drive (i.e. C:\Programming\QBASIC) but I simply click and drag the two files onto a floppy disk and the program still runs fine except that the files and the program are not put in the users allocation, theyre put on the floppy disk.
Anyone know why this is? Id put all my code in the message only its so big and there are 2 files. So if anyone wants to see the code then e-mail me at y2keable@hotmail.com note the files i'm talking about are compiled into .exe
Cheers
