create a self-extracting zip file with zip on solaris?
 

I would like to create a self-extracting zip file for windows with the command zip on my solaris server?
I type "zip -A TEST.exe TEST.PDF"
The compressed file is created but once I want to run it on my PC(Windows 2k) it doesn't work (it write "program too big to fit in memory")

Is it possible to make that?

Thanxx

Sam

I'm afraid the -A option does nothing.
I just compared two zip files created with and without this option, and there was almost no difference (same size, only 2 differing bytes).

The -A option will only fix zipfile offsets, you need to add an unzip stub, such as unzipsfx.

I assume you have the file zipped by now. So try this:[list=1][*]Download the appropriate stub, say, here (for Win32, it's WIN32/unz551xN.exe)[*]Extract the Win32 stub (unzip unz551xN.zip unzipsfx.exe)[*]Prepend the stub to your zipfile (cat unzipsfx.exe test.zip > testDOS.exe)[*]Fix the zipfile offsets (zip -A testDOS.exe)[/list=1]Haven't tried this on Solaris, though, but it should work.

THAT WORK VERY WELL!!!

THANXXX A LOT Master Singular Matrix!

Sam