[Sussex] Self Extracting Archives

[Scott James]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:33:42PM +0000, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 13:23, Scott James wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> I've found a website in the last couple of minutes that will let me do
> it, basically, you create the tar file and `cat` it plus a script to
> untar the remainder of the file using tail to find that start of the
> archive into a single file.  

Thats what shar does but in a funky way .. check it out.

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S

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