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  2. Self-extracting archive - Wikipedia

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    A self-extracting archive created using 7-Zip. A self-extracting archive (SFX or SEA) is a computer executable program which combines compressed data in an archive file with machine-executable code to extract the information. Running on a compatible operating system, it does not need a suitable extractor in the target computer to extract the data.

  3. Executable compression - Wikipedia

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    Executable compression used to be more popular when computers were limited to the storage capacity of floppy disks, which were both slow and low capacity media, and small hard drives; it allowed the computer to store more software in the same amount of space, without the inconvenience of having to manually unpack an archive file every time the ...

  4. xar (archiver) - Wikipedia

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    XAR (short for eXtensible ARchive format) is an open source file archiver and the archiver’s file format.It was created within the OpenDarwin project and is used in macOS X 10.5 and up for software installation routines, as well as browser extensions in Safari 5.0 and up.

  5. List of software package management systems - Wikipedia

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    Works on Windows NT, OS X and Linux; Uplay: A cross-platform video game distribution, licensing and social gameplay platform, developed and maintained by Ubisoft. Used to shop for, download, install and update video games. Works on Windows NT and Windows Phone, as well as PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Wii U, iOS and Android.

  6. MacBinary - Wikipedia

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    The first incarnation of MacBinary was released in 1985. The standard was originally specified by Dennis Brothers (author of the terminal program MacTEP and later an Apple employee), BinHex author Yves Lempereur, PackIt author Harry Chesley, et al. then added support for MacBinary into BinHex 5.0, using MacBinary to combine the forks instead of his own methods.

  7. 7-Zip - Wikipedia

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    7-Zip is a free and open-source file archiver, a utility used to place groups of files within compressed containers known as "archives". It is developed by Igor Pavlov and was first released in 1999. [2] 7-Zip has its own archive format called 7z introduced in 2001, [12] but can read and write several others.

  8. PeaZip - Wikipedia

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    PeaZip is a free and open-source file manager and file archiver [5] for Microsoft Windows, ReactOS, [6] Linux, [7] [8] [9] MacOS [10] and BSD [11] [12] by Giorgio Tani. It supports its native PEA archive format [ 13 ] (supporting compression, multi-volume split, and flexible authenticated encryption and integrity check schemes) and other ...

  9. Package manager - Wikipedia

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    A build automation utility typically takes human-readable source code files already on a computer, and automates the process of converting them into a binary executable package on the same or remote computer. Later a package manager typically running on some other computer downloads those pre-built binary executable packages over the internet ...