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Sort of like a self extrating zip, but that will just extract and put
all the files in a directory with no user action. I am doing this from
a batch job. So I want the job to launch foo.exe which will extract
the foo program and put all of its files into C:\foo and it's
respective subdirectories.
Anybody know of something like this?
-Jim
jtpryan@gmail.com wrote:
> Sort of like a self extrating zip, but that will just extract and put
> all the files in a directory with no user action. I am doing this
> from a batch job. So I want the job to launch foo.exe which will
> extract the foo program and put all of its files into C:\foo and it's
> respective subdirectories.
>
> Anybody know of something like this?
>
Pkzip, arj or LHA; all dos apps from years back
LHA is freeware and gives quite good compression.
Mike,
Thanks. As it turns out it looks like WinRAR might fill the bill.
PKzip appears to be a commercial product now, not expensive, but a pain
in the "file expenses" world. I'll look at LHA.
Jim
7zip (sourceforge.net) may also be able to extract to a specific
directory if called via commandline
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