[softwarelist] Re: OPW OP fonts in Windows 7
- From: "Rob Hemmings (News)" <rhnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:37:34 +0000 (GMT)
In article <4Ir0bsLc56RLFwYS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David Pilling
<flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message <50d692d8d9john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, John M Ward
> <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
> >> (squeeze), less common on Windows. Point being that some virus
> >> programs don't like the look of expanding .exe files.
> >Virus checkers I'd have thought. Just to be clear...
> Is there a difference.
> >I notice that there are still a lot of self-extracting .exe -type
> >downloaded programs in that market
> Don't confuse two things. There have long been .exe files which when
> you run them extract a number of files and save them to disc. These
> are "self extracting archives", they hardly exist on RISC OS.
> What I'm talking about is .exe files on disc that have been installed
> and which you run when you want to do something - programs. The actual
> code that is executed is compressed, it loads, expands and then
> executes. Almost all the !RunImage files you have on your RISC OS
> computer do this - ARM code compresses well and it is faster to load a
> small file from floppy and then expand it.
> It appears that for OPW, the installer is a compressed .exe, the main
> OvnPro.exe is not.
> Your virus checker does not mind a .exe saving out data (self extract
> archive), what may upset it is seeing a .exe re-writing code and then
> executing it (compressed .exe).
Interestingly I also get the same error message when trying to install
these fonts, even with my virus checker disabled :-(
Could a non-compressed version of the installer be made available on a
web site somewhere? (Or just the fonts without the installer?)
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