I use simple windows batch scripting to automate some software development I do. The one thing that is hanging me up is the final step where I zip all the files up into a self-extracter. I want to be ...

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I'm posting this here and in the programmers' forum, since it's both a programming issue and a system administration issue.<BR><BR>I want to create a batch script in Windows XP that will do the ...

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