10-20-2024, 08:41 PM
It's still possible to create self-extracting archives using any of the major archive utilities (7Zip, WinZip, Rar, whatever).
This feature is more reminiscent of (but not) a quine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)) than an archive.
It seems to me that one could store other types of data using $Embed then extract it at run-time using _Embedded$, but for archival purposes a dedicated archive utility such as 7Zip would be much more efficient. A utility like 7Zip will give much better compression and the extractor stubs used by archivers are much smaller than the minimum PE program size.
This feature is more reminiscent of (but not) a quine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)) than an archive.
It seems to me that one could store other types of data using $Embed then extract it at run-time using _Embedded$, but for archival purposes a dedicated archive utility such as 7Zip would be much more efficient. A utility like 7Zip will give much better compression and the extractor stubs used by archivers are much smaller than the minimum PE program size.