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From: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Archives and distribution
Message-ID: <8410@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 7 Apr 88 00:54:22 GMT
References: <38077UH2@PSUVM>
Reply-To: ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
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In article <38077UH2@PSUVM> UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes:
>What we really need...
>
>In msdos land, there is an archiver that compresses, packs everything
>together, and is *executable*.  When you execute the archive, it unarchives
>itself.  Kind of a binary shar file.

This already exists.  It's a shareware program called Pak, and it
creates executable self-extracting .pak files.

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Eric Kennedy
ejkst@cisunx.UUCP