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Randy ®

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Sep 19, 2009, 8:24:28 PM9/19/09
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Anyone have Agent formatted for U3P? I downloaded Package
Factory, but haven't succeeded in formatting it or Thunderbird
3.03b properly yet. If anyone has it available, or can do it,
please let me know.

Thanks

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Cindy Ross

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Sep 20, 2009, 10:40:23 AM9/20/09
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>>Anyone have Agent formatted for U3P? I downloaded Package
>>Factory, but haven't succeeded in formatting it or Thunderbird
>>3.03b properly yet. If anyone has it available, or can do it,
>>please let me know.
>
>I don't have an answer but that's an interesting problem. How to take an
>application which is already 100% portable and make it, ummm, portable.
>
>If you aren't aware of it already, Agent is completely portable. Just copy
>the entire Agent folder to a USB device, stick the device into any
>computer, and run it.

...and both Firefox and Thunderbird have portable editions, just google
for portable firefox and portable thunderbird.

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Agent >

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Sep 21, 2009, 11:14:41 AM9/21/09
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On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:18:10 -0500,
In newsgroup "alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent",
Article
<c0ecb5la1vj4hu853...@news.easynews.com>,
Spender <Spe...@Mars.org> wrote:


>On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:24:28 -0500, Randy � <pulpi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Anyone have Agent formatted for U3P? I downloaded Package
>>Factory, but haven't succeeded in formatting it or Thunderbird
>>3.03b properly yet. If anyone has it available, or can do it,
>>please let me know.
>

>I don't have an answer but that's an interesting problem. How to take an
>application which is already 100% portable and make it, ummm, portable.
>
>If you aren't aware of it already, Agent is completely portable. Just copy
>the entire Agent folder to a USB device, stick the device into any
>computer, and run it.
>

>I haven't worked with a U3 device, but perhaps knowing that will help out.
>At least nothing has to be copied to the host and run from there.


If you're telling me all that has to be done is just copy the
Agent folder and it will work, I'll give it a try, and thanks.
What about the Application Data folder that is stored
separately, in another location?


Agent Forte

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Sep 21, 2009, 11:16:48 AM9/21/09
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On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:40:23 -0400,
In newsgroup "alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent",
Article <hkfcb59vkut9b8v50...@4ax.com>,
Cindy Ross <ro...@us.ibm.com> wrote:


Yeah, I know. They have an automatic option to install them
from SanDisk Flash drives, and I did. Problem is, they don't
have the latest beta updates of those, which I regularly use.
Plus I want Agent as well. If "Spender" is correct, and all I
have to do is copy the Agent folder, that would be excellent.
I'd be surprised if it did, but am going to give it a shot.

Agent Forte

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Sep 21, 2009, 11:22:36 AM9/21/09
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On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:17:48 -0500,

In newsgroup "alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent",
Article
<6cadb5tscoa55rk64...@news.easynews.com>,
Spender <Spe...@Mars.org> wrote:


>On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:40:23 -0400, Cindy Ross <ro...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>>...and both Firefox and Thunderbird have portable editions, just google
>>for portable firefox and portable thunderbird.
>

>Portable Firefox works splendidly. I use it with Portable Tor.
>
>PortableApps is a similar theory to U3, but without the need for any
>special device. http://portableapps.com/


Yes, thanks. I found that also, but installed it wrong the
first time. Thanks for the tips!

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Randy ®

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Sep 25, 2009, 2:43:16 PM9/25/09
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On 9/21/2009 2:56 PM, Spender wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:14:41 -0500, Agent<us...@forte-agent.com>> wrote:

>
>> Spender<Spe...@Mars.org> wrote:
>>
>>> If you aren't aware of it already, Agent is completely portable. Just copy
>>> the entire Agent folder to a USB device, stick the device into any
>>> computer, and run it.
>>>
>>> I haven't worked with a U3 device, but perhaps knowing that will help out.
>>> At least nothing has to be copied to the host and run from there.
>>
>> If you're telling me all that has to be done is just copy the
>> Agent folder and it will work, I'll give it a try, and thanks.
>> What about the Application Data folder that is stored
>> separately, in another location?
>
> I actually can't recall the default manner in which Agent installs since I
> always do updates over my current install. But if the Application Data
> folder is where all the .dat, .idx files are, you can specify that in the
> shortcut.
>
> In the Target property of the shortcut just specify the location of the
> agent.exe file along with the location of the data files, such as:
> "D:\Data\Programs\Agent\agent.exe D:\Data\Programs\Agent\Data"
>
> Of course this means the possible need to alter the shortcut since you may
> not be sure of what drive letter you'll get when running on a flash
> device.


Thanks for the tip. For some reason, it won't allow me to enter
both on the same line like that. Is there something I'm missing?

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Randy ®

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Sep 25, 2009, 8:28:05 PM9/25/09
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On 9/25/2009 1:57 PM, Spender wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:43:16 -0500, Randy �<pulpi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 9/21/2009 2:56 PM, Spender wrote:
>>>
>>> In the Target property of the shortcut just specify the location of the
>>> agent.exe file along with the location of the data files, such as:
>>> "D:\Data\Programs\Agent\agent.exe D:\Data\Programs\Agent\Data"
>
>> Thanks for the tip. For some reason, it won't allow me to enter
>> both on the same line like that. Is there something I'm missing?
>
> Did you use the quotes? In the example, the quotes would not be used
> because neither file path has a space. However if a file path has a space,
> you would need to quote that part. But each part needs to be quoted on its
> own. For instance:
>
> Quoting both parts due to spaces in file paths:
> "D:\Data\Program Files\Agent\agent.exe" "D:\Data\Program Files\Agent\Data"
>
> Quoting only the first part due to a space, but not needed in the second
> part:
> "D:\Data\Program Files\Agent\agent.exe" D:\Agent\Data
>
> No quotes needed:
> D:\Agent\agent.exe D:\Agent\Data


I used quotes. However, I went ahead and dumped all the files
right in the same folder as the .exe file, and it worked. Thanks
for the tips.

Randy ®

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Sep 25, 2009, 8:28:52 PM9/25/09
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On 9/25/2009 3:47 PM, Arno Martens wrote:
> If your Data folder is at

>
> D:\Data\Programs\Agent\Data
> just put

>
> D:\Data\Programs\Agent\agent.exe
> into the Target: box and
>
> D:\Data\Programs\Agent
> in the Start in: box.
>
> Here's mine
> http://i36.tinypic.com/2e6fn2t.jpg


Thanks for the tips.

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