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Prerequisites

The Prerequisites section specifies files that should be present before file copying starts.

See the example below for the key and value syntax. The message may contain the following sequences which are passed to the Windows message box appropriately:

See also the Decompressors section for valid keywords.

[Prerequisites]
; Zero or more items which should be checked before installation
;
;
;  [A] [?] ['message']=<file>
;  A:       Abort if file can't be found
;  ?:       Ask user to proceed
;  message:	Message to be displayed if file can't be found
;  file:    file whose existance should be checked (special symbols see Decompressors)
;
;A?'Previous version not correctly installed\nDo you want to proceed'={1}readme.txt
A?'There seems to be no win.ini file :-( '={WINDOWSDIR}win.ini