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IExpress (IEXPRESS.EXE) can be used for distributing self-contained installation packages (INF-based setup executables) to multiple local or remote Windows computers.It creates a self-extracting executable (.EXE) or a compressed Cabinet file using either the provided front end interface (IExpress Wizard), or a custom Self Extraction Directive (SED) file. [1]
[2] [3] Typically, self-extracting files for Microsoft operating systems such as DOS and Windows have a .exe extension, just like any other executable file. For example, an archive may be called "somefiles.zip—it", which can be opened under any operating system by a suitable archive manager that supports both the file format and compression ...
IExpress works this way, as does Microsoft Windows Explorer, which can open CAB archives as a folder. Some can store the paths, and upon extraction, create folders as necessary. CABARC.EXE and EXTRACT.EXE (tools from Microsoft Cabinet SDK [2]) as well as lcab [3] and cabextract [4] (third-party open-source tools) work this way.
IExpress: Microsoft (Part of Windows) Active Freeware (proprietary) No No Inno Setup: Jordan Russell and Martijn Laan Active Modified BSD license: No No InstallAware: InstallAware Software Active Trialware: Yes Yes Yes InstallCore: InstallCore [2] Discontinued Software as a service: No InstallShield: Flexera Software: Active Trialware: Yes Yes ...
The "10 Useful Batch Commands, B.Arthur" link is slightly broken. == Confusing "SET" command description batch file The following sentence under the "Uses" heading is very confusing. "They are mainly used to use the "set" command, which sets a string to another, during the time the batch file is being processed." Possibly the author meant:
Microsoft released a version of cmd.exe for Windows 9x and ME called WIN95CMD to allow users of older versions of Windows to use certain cmd.exe-style batch files. As of Windows 8, cmd.exe is the normal command interpreter for batch files; the older COMMAND.COM can be run as well in 32-bit versions of Windows able to run 16-bit programs.
.EXE: Yes by file Yes Yes Yes [5] Yes Yes No Only MZ (DOS) [6] Yes PE32+ Windows (64-bit editions only).EXE: Yes by file Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes "Compiled Hybrid Portable Executable" Yes Mach-O [7] NeXTSTEP, macOS, iOS, watchOS, tvOS: none Yes by section Some (limited to max. 256 sections) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No OS/360
COMMAND.COM is the default command-line interpreter for MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows Me.In the case of DOS, it is the default user interface as well. [2] It has an additional role as the usual first program run after boot (init process), hence being responsible for setting up the system by running the AUTOEXEC.BAT configuration file, and being the ancestor of all processes.