A question regarding File command

[dullboy]

Originally Posted by demiller9

The FILE command is used during the compile time to compress the files into the setup program. $1 does not have a value during compile time, so the file you want to point to later cannot be put into the setup program.

During execution, FILE $1 would try to extract the file named by "$1" to the current working directory; unfortunately it will fail because the compile time function won't have worked.

I see. Thanks so much for your explanations!