nullnullnull
17th October 2002 18:01 UTC

Self extracting Zip archive?
I am just wondering why a NSIS binary that is usinig the default Zip compression is not the same as a Self Extracting Zip file.

In some cases it is very useful to be able to use a zip program to extract and installer and just get at the files and avoid running any scripts.

If anyone can explain why this is not possible or how to make it possible i would be very interested.

thanks

Joost Verburg
17th October 2002 18:15 UTC

NSIS does not use ZIP. It uses ZLIB and BZIP2 and it also has a different file format.

kichik
17th October 2002 18:19 UTC

If you want to avoid scripting use Zip2EXE to easily convert any Zip file to a simple NSIS self-extractor.

hermanator
27th November 2002 23:24 UTC

Would it be possible to extract files from a nsis installer exe on other platforms (i.e. linux)? If not now, how about in the future?

Sunjammer
28th November 2002 01:36 UTC

Unlikely any time soon.