SOLVED: Creating Self-Extracting Windows ZIP files under FC2

[Ow Mun Heng]

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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