How do I create a Self-Extracting zip archive with PKZIP/SecureZIP?
In order to create a Self-Extracting zip archive, you will first need to make sure you are licensed for this feature. Please check with your PKWARE Sales Rep before attempting to use this feature. SFX archives can only be decompressed without another zip utility when extracting it on the PC and Unix platforms. If you need to extract the SFX archive on the zSeries or iSeries platforms, you will need to use PKZIP to extract the archive (like you would with a normal zip archive). Here’s an example on how to create an SFX archive: In this example we created a Windows SFX archive. If you wanted to create a UNIX SFX archive, just specify the flavor of UNIX out of the following options: AIX, HP_UNIX, SUN_UNIX, LINUXINTEL PKZIP/SecureZIP for i5/OS uses the PKZIP SFX 2.x technology to create the SFX archive, meaning when you go to extract the archive on the Windows platform, you will need to do it from the Command Line prompt or DOS prompt.
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