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Rodney Thayer <rodney at sabletech.com> writes: >> does anyone know of a self-extracting tool for the Unix world? I want to >> create an executable that does the same sort of thing as self-extracing ZIP >> or ARJ archives do in the PC world. >> >> I want something that is distribution-neutral... Try a SHAR archive containing a uuencoded gzipped tar file... #! /bin/sh cat > foo.uu << \SHAR_EOF begin 666 foo.tar.gz M...a...bunch...of...uuencoded...data... M...a...bunch...of...uuencoded...data... M...a...bunch...of...uuencoded...data... SHAR_EOF exit 0 -- John Abreau / Director, BCS Linux & Unix User Group / jabr at bcs.org The Boston Computer Society / 101 First Avenue / Waltham, MA 02154 Voice +1 617 290 5700 / Fax +1 617 290 5744 / http://www.bcs.org
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