What are spanned archives?
Spanned archive refers to the method of dividing compressed files into multiple, smaller files. • Can I change a spanned archive into a self-extracting format? Yes, you can transform archive files into executable files with the ALZip Self-Extractor. Simply right-click on the first file in the spanned archive, the one with the .alz file extension, and then click ALZip Self-Extractor (EXE). Click OK and you’re done. A new .exe file will be in the same directory. You can erase the original .alz file because it is no longer needed. • Can I use ALZip to extract files from other archiving utilities and vice versa? Of course! You can extract any of 27 different archive formats with ALZip. It doesn’t matter which utility originally created the file. As for other utilities extracting archives made with ALZip, that depends… As long as the archiving utility supports the file format of the archive that you made with ALZip, then yes. For example, you can’t extract an ALZip ALZ file with gzip (a U
