[H-GEN] possible 2 create self executing tar.gz's?

[Ben Fowler]

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Hi Matt,

Matthew Taylor wrote:
> Curious how one would do this under unix. The unix versions of the sun 
> jdk are distributed in this manner [1], I vaguely recall other packages 
> I've used that are similar. any ideas how to do this under *nix?
> 
> I had a quick poke around the man files for tar, bzip2, gzip, nothing 
> there.

If you want to make self-extractors, check out "shar".  It'll generate a 
shell script that will implement a self-extracting archive.  For 
anything more elaborate, say, with X-based installers and stuff, you may 
have to look further afield to non-Free sources.

-regards,

Ben Fowler.



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