Posted by cwdjrxyz@yahoo.com on 10/22/05 23:20

cwdjrxyz@yahoo.com wrote:
> keerthana_m_2003@yahoo.com wrote:
> > I have designed a web page containing many pages and figures. I want to
> > make a single dll file or EXE file. I want one single html file which
> > can extract the pages from these exe or dll files and display in
> > internet explorer. How can this be done.
>
> I am not certain I understand what you want to do, but I am guessing
> that what you need is to create a self extracting SFX archive. This
> type of compression is used to compress a collection of various files
> that may include html, text, image, etc types. It has an extension of
> .exe. When you click on the icon for this type of file twice it opens
> to decompress all of the files automatically. One can also encrypt such
> files so that only someone with the key can open them. I use
> GlobalScape's CuteZip, and it allows creation of such files, including
> encrypted ones. Likely other compression programs can do this also. The
> common .zip file is just one of many types of archive formats, and it
> is not always the best for many applications.

I have an example of the type of SFX file, also known as a cabinet
file, at http://www.cwdjr.info/temp/selfExtractCabFile.exe . The
disadvantage of this type of file for general use on the web is that
many people will not open a .exe file unless they know and trust the
source of the code. Anyway, the archive file contains a folder which
contains 4 pages which are html, text, and 2 images. If you decide to
download this, I suggest you create an empty folder, and select to
download to it. Then you can double click the archive file icon and
select to open to the folder in which it is contained to generate the
uncompressed files.

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