[ Olivier, please point out to RMS that Cygnus is using InstallShield to distribute the gnu-win32 binaries (which include many/most GNU programs). ] Samuel Mikes <smikes(a)alumni.hmc.edu&gt; wrote: > It should be possible to define the setup so that it looks > something like this, when burned on CD-ROM: > > /SETUP32.EXE > /(installshield data files) > /(.CAB files) > /XEmacs/ > /XEmacs/src/ > /XEmacs/lisp/ > ... other XEmacs sources > /InstallShield/(script and data files) I'd like to emphasize that the XEmacs binaries/sources that will be installed are stored in the .CAB files. The XEmacs/src, etc. trees are there only for convenience (so that people could easily pick out a file or two without having to re-run the setup program, etc.). Also, the other versions of InstallShield allow you to package up all of the InstallShield and XEmacs files into a single monolithic executable, for easy distribution (users only have to download one, possibly large, file). This is the most useful form. Basically, to install the software, the user simply runs the monolithic executable. All of the files are automatically extracted from the monolithic executable, and the real setup program is then automatically executed.