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Self-Extracting Archive

Self-Extracting Archive

Surhone, Lambert M.
Timpledon, Miriam T.
Marseken, Susan F.

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ISBN10: 6132110925
ISBN13: 9786132110923
Publisher: Vdm Verlag Dr Mller Ag & Co Kg
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.15 Width: 9.02 Depth: 6.00
Language: English
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A self-extracting archive (short SFX) is a computer application which contains a compressed file archive, as well as programming to extract this information. Such file archives do not require a second executable file or program to extract from the archive, as archive files usually require. The files in an archive can thus be extracted by anyone, whether they possess the appropriate decompression program or not, as long as the program can run on their computer platform. The original purpose for the self-extracting archive was to allow the distribution of tools for extracting (and adding) member files to an archive file. The situation otherwise, in effect, represents a chicken and egg problem: in order to use an archive file, the user requires a de-archiver program, which they have to be able to get onto their computer. If the de-archiver program was simply a single executable with no other files, it would be possible to simply download that one file, then execute it.

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