SOLVED: Creating Self-Extracting Windows ZIP files under FC2
Ow Mun Heng
Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com
Sat Jul 17 00:43:36 UTC 2004
On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 17:30, Mike McMullen wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ow Mun Heng" <Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com>
> > On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 16:58, Mike McMullen wrote:
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Mike McMullen" <mlm at loanprocessing.net>
> > >
> > > If you want to create a Windows self-exracting zip archive under linux
> > > this is what you do:
> >
> > Wow.. Didn't know it could be done. Long steps though..
> >
> > But great info
> >
> The long part is getting the Windows extractor stub. Once you have that
> to use, it's only 3 steps.
I'm lazy.. so answer if you are free to.
What's this windows extractor stub anyway? why is it needed?
I just looked up "man zip"
-A Adjust self-extracting executable archive. A self-extracting
executable archive is created by prepending the SFX stub to an
existing archive. The -A option tells zip to adjust the entry
offsets stored in the archive to take into account this "pream-
ble" data.
HUH?
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Ow Mun Heng
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