[Sussex] Self Extracting Archives

[Scott James]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:16:14PM +0000, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> All,
> 
> I've noticed that some installers for *nix systems, especially some
> binary installers, seem to be self-extracting archives, this would be
> great for a project I'm working on at the moment, does anyone have any
> idea where to start?

Back in the good old days ;-) of usenet shar was used todo this.  

Not sure I like the ideal of self extracting archives nowadays tho.
What are you trying to achieve?

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S

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