Create an EXE, to copy in folder, with VB or any language

Tough one here:

a friend of mine is making in.... Java!

and he needs to execute a program during the installation of his program (he created the installer for his program too).

anyway, this EXE should run automatically, i.e. like those old EXE files that needed no dll's.

i heard that you can bundle the vb runtime dlls with your program in one exe, but i can't find that post. the solution has to be free though.

if it can't be done in VB, please advise any other compiler: C, Fortran whatever.

What i need is an exe that does only one thing: execute the DOS vol command.

like this:


vol > volume.txt

HELP PLEASE!!!!

Although there are console APIs which can let u maybe get the results from a dos prog, i am unfamiliar with them. What I have always done is at run time write the command "vol > volume.txt" to a batch file. Then, I shell the batch file and delete it. VB does not support the use of commandline redirecting.

help!!!

give me a hint...