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Old September 28th, 2005, 01:47 PM
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Hello,

I have a shareware program that I would like to distribute via a link on my website. I'm not sure how to perform this action to download my program to the user's machine when they click on the link. Any help would be appreciated.

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zip it.


So all I need to do is zip up my program and store it on a location on my web server and when the user clicks on my link, it unzips the file to the user machine?

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No, they can then download the zipped application and unzip it.
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No, they can then download the zipped application and unzip it.


I think he wants to create an installer

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