SelfExtract-Pro installation notes

The SelfExtract-Pro archive file name indicates the date that the product version in the file was built in day/month/year order. The JAR file contains 5 files. SelfExtract-Pro requires that the Java 2 virtual machine be installed on your machine (Sun calls this the JRE). This is available free at Sun's website. The program is packaged into the single executable JAR file "SEPro.jar". This can be run by either double clicking on it in Windows (or a single click in Solaris) or alternatively with the command
      java -jar SEPro.jar
The executable JAR file is self-contained and should not be tampered with. This JAR file cannot be run as an applet in a browser, instead it must be run as a standalone application (similar to a '.exe' file on a PC). It can be placed in any directory on a users machine. When it runs it will create three directories as subdirectories to the directory where it resides. These are called "props" , "myjars" and "myzips". The directory "props" contains files for saving session information as well as registration information. The others are default directories for saved archives. Erasing any of the directories is not critical as they will automatically be recreated however they also contains registration information so the registration code may have to be re-entered.

The user manual for the product is accessed via the help menu and it might be best if this is looked at first.

The minimum recommended PC for the product is a Pentium 233 with 24 MBytes of RAM. It is written entirely using the Sun Java 2 JRE and users must have this installed on their machine.

Known issues

Zip files created with the product can be unzipped by nearly all the utilities currently available such as WinZip or PKZip. However there are certain products, particularly older products, which may have trouble unzipping the zip files created with the java.util.zip API that SE-Pro uses.

Bugs and feedback

Bugs should be sent to colin_mummery@yahoo.com and product news can be found at http://www.kagi.com/EquitySoft. All feedback is most welcome.
© Colin Mummery.