RE:zip and Cygwin

RE:zip and Cygwin

[Jorge Goncalvez]

Hi, I wonder if it is possible to make an excutable (Win32 exe ) with zip.
I tried with th eoption -A but it didn't make an exe.
Thanks.


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Re: zip and Cygwin

[Charles Wilson]

Jorge Goncalvez wrote:

> Hi, I wonder if it is possible to make an excutable (Win32 exe ) with zip.


No.


> I tried with th eoption -A but it didn't make an exe.
> Thanks.


According to the man page for zip, -A is for adjusting the internal 
offset records within a pre-existing self extracting archive, created by 
prepending the 'SFX' stub to the front of the zip archive.  However, as 
documented by the man page, -A only works on the Amiga port of zip.

The SFX stub is not distributed with GNU zip -- it's actally part of the 
PKzip distribution I think.  (It wouldn't make sense to have a GNU 
version of the SFX stub -- think about the sourcecode redistribution 
requirements...)

--Chuck




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