OT: Creating Self-Extracting ZIP files under FC2
netmask
netmask at enZotech.net
Fri Jul 16 21:36:23 UTC 2004
> Is this possible? And if so how? I've looked at the man page
> for zip and see the -A option. I've played around with a test
> zip file and can't figure out how to get this to go.
Short of an msdos emulator.. I'm going to say no, but I might be wrong.
here's something interesting from 'man unzipsfx'
Note that self-extracting archives made with unzipsfx are
no more (or less) portable across different operating sys-
tems than is the unzip executable itself. In general a
self-extracting archive made on a particular Unix system,
for example, will only self-extract under the same flavor
of Unix. Regular unzip may still be used to extract the
embedded archive as with any normal zipfile, although it
will generate a harmless warning about extra bytes at the
beginning of the zipfile. Despite this, however, the
self-extracting archive is technically not a valid ZIP
archive, and PKUNZIP may be unable to test or extract it.
This limitation is due to the simplistic manner in which
the archive is created; the internal directory structure
is not updated to reflect the extra bytes prepended to the
original zipfile.
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