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Is it possible to create a self extracting archive from console in Winzip? The task is trivial in 7zip and Winrar with the -sfx switch but having searched online and looked through all of the Winzip console help documentation I cannot see any reference to it.

wzzip -a -sfx test "New Text Document.txt"

  • This generates the following "ERROR: password error on argument sfx Program is terminating!", most likely because wzzip is reading the -sfx switch as -s which is to apply password encryption

wzzip -a testtest.exe "New Text Document.txt"

  • Something like this just generates an unusable .exe
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WinZip inclindes the WinZip Self-Extractor Personal Edition which does not support creating Self-Extracting Archives from the command line. If you do not have the separate license for WinZip Self-Extractor, you cannot use WinZip to create SFX from the command line. This license must be purchased separately.

All this info is here: https://kb.winzip.com/help/help_winzipse.htm

Besides this, if you are not required to use WinZip, you should use 7zip or any of the other, better, compression utilities, as TOOGAM suggests in their answer to this similar question.

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