The problem is that some older 32bit programs (that came out around the time of Windows 95) had 16bit installer EXEs. On 64bit Windows, 16bit programs will not run. I don't want to keep a legacy 32bit computer just to run a 16bit installer to extract the contents of the associated InstallShield archive files. These archive files are the files that contain the actual files of the program that is to be installed. The archive files for a 16bit version of an InstallShield installer are called _SETUP.1 or _SETUP.2 or _SETUP.3 etc. Basically each archive file is named according to the naming convention _SETUP.X where X is a number from 1 through however many archive files there are in the install package. If there's 3 files, the files will be named _SETUP.1 and _SETUP.2 and _SETUP.3. Now that 16bit installer program called SETUP.EXE will automatically extract the contents of these files when run. But that's not an option on 64bit Windows. I'm looking for you to either add a feature to your current program, or to make a new program, that will be a 32bit or 64bit program that will allow me to extract the contents of the InstallShield archive files that have the file naming convention of _SETUP.X if you are willing to make such a program, or add such a feature to this already existing program. In case you need to reverse engineer these files, I have a program who's installer is an InstallShield installer in a folder that has a set of 5 such archive files called _SETUP.1 and _SETUP.2 and _SETUP.3 and _SETUP.4 and _SETUP.5 for their file names. I've put all 5 of these into a ZIP file called _SETUP.zip and have attached that ZIP file to this feature request post.
_SETUP.zip
The problem is that some older 32bit programs (that came out around the time of Windows 95) had 16bit installer EXEs. On 64bit Windows, 16bit programs will not run. I don't want to keep a legacy 32bit computer just to run a 16bit installer to extract the contents of the associated InstallShield archive files. These archive files are the files that contain the actual files of the program that is to be installed. The archive files for a 16bit version of an InstallShield installer are called _SETUP.1 or _SETUP.2 or _SETUP.3 etc. Basically each archive file is named according to the naming convention _SETUP.X where X is a number from 1 through however many archive files there are in the install package. If there's 3 files, the files will be named _SETUP.1 and _SETUP.2 and _SETUP.3. Now that 16bit installer program called SETUP.EXE will automatically extract the contents of these files when run. But that's not an option on 64bit Windows. I'm looking for you to either add a feature to your current program, or to make a new program, that will be a 32bit or 64bit program that will allow me to extract the contents of the InstallShield archive files that have the file naming convention of _SETUP.X if you are willing to make such a program, or add such a feature to this already existing program. In case you need to reverse engineer these files, I have a program who's installer is an InstallShield installer in a folder that has a set of 5 such archive files called _SETUP.1 and _SETUP.2 and _SETUP.3 and _SETUP.4 and _SETUP.5 for their file names. I've put all 5 of these into a ZIP file called _SETUP.zip and have attached that ZIP file to this feature request post.
_SETUP.zip