Re: Re: AbiWord.Profile

On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 cspurrier@craigweb.net wrote:

> Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 19:57:09 -0500
> From: cspurrier@craigweb.net
> To: abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: Re: AbiWord.Profile
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> The goal is to run AbiWord off of a USB thumb/pen drive. So far I have
> UPXed and deleted files down to 6.85MB and created an installer.

6.85MB seems rather large and kinda crappy.

I used UPX to compress Abiword.exe and got it down to less than 1.44 MB
(that was Abiword 1.0 and I know quite a few things have changed since
then but I wouldn't have expected that big a jump in size)

Which files are you including?

I'm not sure I understand why you have created an installer you should be
able to run abiword directly in place on the thumb drive.

> It currently runs off of a thumb drive just fine. When it runs it
> creates the AbiWord.Profile file and two registry entries.

I wouldn't have expected the registry entries from Abiword itself, I
thought all the registry messing got done in the isntaller (which is not
necessarily a good thing).

> The profile problem I fixed with a bat file with “set
> USERPROFILE=../” Do you see any problems with this the one you had in
> your message did not work.

What I suggested was off the top of my head from memory without a copy of
abiword available to check it. If USERPROFILE works then go with it even
if wrapping binaries with batch scripts is a nasty evil hack I'm glad it
will do until we can come up with a better solution.

> The registry entries deal with file extensions any tips on stopping them?

Is ignoring them not an option?
I suppose you could make a custom build and disable them.

Now that you have admitted what you are trying to do it is much more
likely that developers will be willing to make changes to accomodate you.
If you can track down where in the code this his happening we might be
allowed disable them.

Always intersting to see abiword used in new and unusual ways.

Thanks for using Abiword.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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Received on Mon Dec 6 02:08:10 2004