Eraser Portable Launcher 1.4
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Copyright 2004-2007 John T. Haller

Website: http://PortableApps.com/EraserPortable

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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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ABOUT Eraser PORTABLE
====================
The Eraser Portable Launcher allows you to run Eraser from a removable drive whose letter changes as you move it to another computer.  The program can be entirely self-contained on the drive and then used on any Windows computer.


LICENSE
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This code is released under the GPL.  The full code is included with this package as EraserPortable.nsi.


INSTALLATION / DIRECTORY STRUCTURE
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By default, the program expects one of these directory structures:

-\ <--- Directory with EraserPortable.exe
	+\App\
		+\Eraser\
	+\Data\
		+\settings\

OR

-\ <--- Directory with EraserPortable.exe
	+\EraserPortable\
		+\App\
			+\Eraser\
		+\Data\
			+\settings\

It can be used in other directory configurations by including the EraserPortable.ini file in the same directory as EraserPortable.exe and configuring it as details in the INI file section below.


EraserPORTABLE.INI CONFIGURATION
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The Eraser Portable Launcher will look for an ini file called EraserPortable.ini (read the previous section for details on placement).  If you are happy with the default options, it is not necessary, though.  The INI file is formatted as follows:

[EraserPortable]
EraserDirectory=App\Eraser
SettingsDirectory=Data\settings
EraserExecutable=Eraser.exe
AdditionalParameters=
DisableSplashScreen=false

The EraserDirectory and SettingsDirectory entries should be set to the *relative* path to the appropriate directories from the current directory.  All must be a subdirectory (or multiple subdirectories) of the directory containing EraserPortable.exe.  The default entries for these are described in the installation section above.

The EraserExecutable entry allows you to set the Miranda Portable Launcher to use an alternate EXE call to launch Eraser.  This is helpful if you are using a machine that is set to deny Eraser.exe from running.  You'll need to rename the Eraser.exe file and then enter the name you gave it on the EraserExecutable= line of the INI.

The AdditionalParameters entry allows you to pass additional commandline parameter entries to Eraser.exe.  Whatever you enter here will be appended to the call to Eraser.exe.

The DisableSplashScreen entry allows you to run the Eraser Portable Launcher without the splash screen showing up.  The default is false.