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From: Venkat (venkat_kp_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 09:18:05 +0530

Hi Guys,

I am maintaining a web site development on ASP, the site takes user input
and generates a text file, CSV file, and an installable on fly. The
installable packages a text file, CSV file, a MyDll(Win32 Dynamic-Link
Library), an install.exe and an uninstall.exe.

Now when the installable is launched on a Windows server it first calls the
install.exe which calls a function in MyDll to insert CSV file content into
SQL 2000 database, the install.exe also has the intelligence of copying the
text file and uninstall.exe to some location on my Windows server.

Running uninstall.exe will remove all the entries from SQL 2000 database
which it had inserted above and also it will delete the text file.
Now i want to make changes to my installable such that it can be ran on a
Linux box with PostgreSQL as the database.

I am planning to do the following for Linux environment.

1. Change MyDll.dll to MyDll.so(this also includes connecting to PostgreSQL
database)
2. Create Install.exe and Uninstall.exe on Linux platforms.
3. I was using PackageForWeb Install shield app on Windows platform earlier,
so for Linux i need to use something similar.

I don't want to convert my site from ASP to JSP as it asks for lot of work,
i need a smart way of running just the installable on the Linux box.
Is my approach feasible enough or do i need to relook at it.

Any help/suggestions in this regard is highly appreciated.

Thanks and Regards,
Venkat

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