zipself-extracting

Possible to create archive that will extract itself to a newly created directory?

If possible, I'd like to compress a number of files, and when the recipient of this zip file extract it (or double click on it) it creates a directory on the local disk and extracts the contained files to that directory. Can somebody point me in the right direction of how I can achieve this please?

Solution

  • Check out this for WinRar (just don't use it for malware!)

    http://www.jackmccarthy.com/malware/WinRAR_Archive_Creation.htm

    or WinZip:

    http://kb.winzip.com/kb/entry/88/

    Or even 7zip:

    http://www.wikihow.com/Use-7Zip-to-Create-Self-Extracting-excutables