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how does one download a manifest with an executable?
The most 'elegant' way is probably to use a resource editor to incorporate the manifest into the executable as a resource.
Failing that (assuming we're talking about a BBC BASIC executable here) embed the manifest file in the executable (in @dir$). The manifest won't be acted upon the first time the EXE is run (because it isn't there yet!) but the second and subsequent times it will be, because by then it's been extracted to the same folder.
You'd need to build in a test for the EXE being run the first time - such as checking for the presence of a file that the EXE creates specifically for the purpose - and if so execute itself!
Re: internet file depoyment
« Reply #4 on: Sep 19th, 2010, 9:49pm »
Dear Richard:
Sounds brilliant_ how to get the manifest to execute on a second pass!! But I also want to know how to use the resource editor for one or two left over, very large Liberty Basic files as well. Can you please explain?
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