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A format requiring a program to decode is nuts. Might as well bundle 7zip with every zip file.
by fallat 1y ago
A format requiring a program to decode is nuts. Might as well bundle 7zip with every zip file.
- coderatlarge 1y agonot a bad idea if your average file size is a terabyte and there’s never a sure way to get a clean binary.
- totetsu 1y agoDidn’t this used to be done? I’m sure I remember finding .exe zip files and being surprised it wasn’t just a virus.
- mr_toad 1y agoSelf extracting executables, (zip files with the decoder included) have been around for decades.
- iceboundrock 1y ago7zip has a feature called `7-Zip self-extracting (SFX) archive`.