Spb AirSetup is a tool for creating Pocket PC installers to be run directly on Pocket PC (for Over-the-Air downloading). It's a command line tool whereby you provide a CAB file, a EULA, a readme and other parameters for it to generate a compressed, self-contained, self-extracting installer (Pocket PC executable).
With the advent of Pocket PC Phone Edition, Over-the-Air program downloading and installing is becoming a more and more common potential in the Pocket PC world. Using this potential the installation is performed on a Pocket PC without any support from a desktop PC. The only way to install applications directly on Pocket PC is using CAB files. However CAB files do have some serious limitations. They do not use compression, which is crucial for decreasing the size of Over-the-Air downloads. Neither do they provide an option to ask a user to accept the end-user license agreement, which may cause some serious legality problems.
Spb AirSetup solves all these problems and also offers some neater features.
Features
Compression
HTML Readme
End-user license agreement
Installation to custom folder
Installation to Pocket PC without desktop PC (Over-the-air)
Compression
Installer program size is critically important for people who pay for GPRS traffic to download software. Spb AirSetup uses one of the best compression algorithms. Here is a table of file sizes for CABs and their corresponding installers as created by Spb AirSetup (real commercial CAB files are used):
CAB file size
AirSetup installer size
Compression level
Sample CAB file #1
757 KB
188 KB
24%
Sample CAB file #2
2.69 MB
1.09 MB
40%
Sample CAB file #3
901 KB
424 KB
47%
Sample CAB file #4
1.47 MB
0.64 MB
43%
Price:
USD 99.95
Current version:
1.0
Release date:
Mar 31, 2002
Download size:
200 KB
Requirements:
Windows 98/2000/XP
30 days money-back. No questions asked. No risk, full price refund.