On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 12:27:31AM -0400, James Carman wrote:
> I'm sorry. I misunderstood what you were asking for. So, you've got a
> server-side process (probably a webapp) which needs to create
> self-extracting archives of some kind? Are all of your people going to have
> a JRE installed on their machines? If so, then you might be able to get
> away with the self-extracting jar approach. However, if your users are
> typical corporate users who probably do not have javaw.exe registered as the
> default file handler for JAR files in windows, you might be up the
> proverbial creek. Is it a strict requirement that they be self-extracting?
> Your users can't live with opening the zip files using something like winzip
> or the built-in zip file support in Windoze XP (if that's your platform)?
> Most corporate users are already familiar with that process, I would hope.
> :-)
The folks at Info-ZIP have a free (BSD-ish license) DOS self-extractor.
They have a FAQ entry on how to create self-extracting files. Basicly,
it's append zipped data to EXE stub and run a utility to patch up the
directory entries.
www.info-zip.org
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