922 InstallShield Compiled Rules File Text (Structured) 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. Text 1 Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives 27 Oct 2009 16 Oct 2021 fmt/197 PUID inx File extension 1830 InstallShield Compiled Rules File BOF: 'aLuZ Copyright (c) 1990' 1 Absolute from BOF 0 0 614C755A0000436F707972696768742028632920313939302D3139393920537469726C696E6720546563686E6F6C6F676965732C204C74642E 1845 InstallShield Compiled Rules File (1990-2002) BOF: 'aLuZ Copyright (c) 1990-2002 InstallShield Software Corp.' 1 Absolute from BOF 0 0 614C755A0000436F707972696768742028632920313939302D3230303220496E7374616C6C536869656C6420536F66747761726520436F72702E