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posPacker User Guide

the target system. Note that the Delete Folder IFB command function call is recursive (it deletes all 
files and subfolders in the specified folder).

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Select the 

Make Folder

 button to create a Make Folder IFB command function call in the new IFB. In 

the text box to the right of this button, enter the name of the folder to create on the target system, or 
double-click a folder to enter its name. The folder is only created on the target system if it does not 
already exist. 

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The 

Run File

 button creates a Run File IFB command function call in the new IFB. In the text box to 

the right of this button, enter the name of the file to run on the target system, or double-click a file to 
enter its name. The file can reside in the new IFB, or it can exist on the target system. During IFB 
expansion, the Run File IFB command function call does not return until the running file completes, so 
further IFB expansion halts until then. Use this command primarily for creating Multi-IFBs, where you 
enter the name of the IFB file to run (expand) in the text box. Note that using the Run File IFB 
command function with non-IFB files only works for SYSTEM signed IFBs (IFBs signed by Symbol). 
Using this command with IFBs that are CUSTOMER, VAR, or PUBLIC signed for a non-IFB file 
generates an access level error.

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The 

Del File

 button creates a Delete File IFB command function call in the new IFB. In the text box to 

the right of this button, enter the name of the file to delete from the target system, or double-click a file 
to enter its name. The file can reside in the new IFB, or it can exist on the target system.

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Select the 

Delete Previous Folder Contents

 check box to cause the new IFB to create empty folders on the 

target system. This ensures that the new IFB installs on the target system without leaving older files on the 
target system. 

Use this check box with caution

. Once you delete a folder on the target system, you 

cannot recover it.

IFB Files

The 

IFB Files

 section of the posPacker tool displays all the IFB command functions in the new IFB. The name 

of the new IFB file appears at the root. Note that the commands execute on the target system in the order they 
appear in the IFB Files section.

 Figure 1-5    

IFB Files Section

Table 1-1    

IFB Files Section Icons

Icon

Description

New IFB File Name

Make Folder IFB Command Function

Delete Folder IFB Command Function