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Summary
Name	InstallShield Compiled Rules File
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Other names
Identifiers	PUID: fmt/197
Family
Classification	Text (Structured)
Disclosure
Description	InstallShield is a proprietary software tool originally developed by The Stirling Group, a company founded in 1987 by Viresh Bhatia and Rick Harold. By 1990, the company was selling a number of products, amongst them InstallShield which was designed to create installation programs. By 1997, Stirling Technologies estimated that InstallShield was being used in 85-90% of all software products written for Windows. The majority of INX files included with an installation are named "setup.inx". This propriety file contains instructions and parameters for the installation.
Orientation	Text
Byte order
Related file formats	None.
Technical Environment
Released
Supported until
Format Risk
Developed by	None.
Supported by	None.
Source	Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Source date	27 Oct 2009
Source description
Last updated	16 Oct 2021
Note	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InstallShield http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/InstallShield_INX