10-10-2003
Some data will not compress. This is usually because it is already compressed.
gzip is the best that I know of.
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makeself
makeself(1) General Commands Manual makeself(1)
NAME
makeself - An utility to generate self-extractable archives.
SYNTAX
makeself [options] archive_dir file_name label [startup_script] [args]
DESCRIPTION
This program is a free (GPL) utility designed to create self-extractable archives from a directory.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported.
-v, --version Prints out the makeself version number and exits.
-h, --help Print out help information.
--gzip Compress using gzip (default if detected).
--bzip2 Compress using bzip2.
--compress Compress using the UNIX 'compress' command.
--nocomp Do not compress the data.
--notemp The archive will create archive_dir in the current directory and uncompress in ./archive_dir.
--copy Upon extraction, the archive will first copy itself to a temporary directory.
--append Append more files to an existing makeself archive. The label and startup scripts will then be ignored.
--current Files will be extracted to the current directory. Implies --notemp.
--header file Specify location of the header script.
--follow Follow the symlinks in the archive.
--nox11 Disable automatic spawn of an xterm if running in X11.
--nowait Do not wait for user input after executing embedded program from an xterm.
--nomd5 Do not create a MD5 checksum for the archive.
--nocrc Do not create a CRC32 checksum for the archive.
--lsm file LSM file describing the package.
AUTHORS
Makeself has been written by Stephane Peter <megastep@megastep.org>. This man page was originally written by Bartosz Fenski <fenio@o2.pl>
for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but it may be used by others).
2.1.4 makeself(1)