Convert Zip files to Sfx (Self Extracting Archives) with Zip2Sfx
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Zip archive format is most popular compression format however to open zip files you need to have WinZip or any other application capable of unzipping zip files. On other hand WinZip also allows you to create self-extracting archive (SFX ) files which you can open without using any software or applications.
If you are not sure whether receiver of your file will have zip utility or not, it would be better to convert all your zip files into SFX files. Here is simple utility Zip2Sfx which is designed to be a small tool which converts a ZIP archive to the self-extracting archive.
How does Zip2Sfx archive work?
It takes the executable code from the sfx package (file with extension .sfx) and appends the archive data to the new executable which is created.
Zip2Sfx – Convert Zip files to Sfx Archives
