DOS SFX module (Dos.SFX)


Beginning from WinRAR 3.50, DOS SFX module is available only in RAR/DOS32 distributive. If you wish to create DOS self-extracting archives, you need to extract default.sfx file from RAR/DOS32 distributive, rename it to DOS.SFX and place it to WinRAR folder.

Using this module you may create self-extracting archives, which can be extracted in text mode under DOS. DOS SFX module can also work in a DOS box under OS/2, Windows and other OS in DOS emulation mode.

DOS.SFX supports the following command line switches:

 -x  Extract from archive (default action)

 -t   Test archive files

 -v  Verbosely list contents of archive

 -?  Show help

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