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SFX archives support

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espkk:
Hello, Mathias
Is it possible to make SFX archives support? 7zfm deals with such files. I guess this requires just to check file for MZ sig and if overlay exists, check it as normal archive

Mathias (Author):
Problem is that all EXE file have MZ as first bytes.

And you can't just open it as a any 7z file. it require a lot of special handling.

espkk:
I mean FS plugins can do this check if the file has appropriate archive ext
For example: FS-7zip can't open 7z file if it's SFX, but checking it for SFX is just a few lines of code(and ms of time)
Same with File>Unpack files...
So no need to check every .exe file

Mathias (Author):
Since the file is named .exe the extension will not even handle that file.
So it is so easy

espkk:
I quite often see the files packed as SFX with 7z extension
This is because most of archivers read them, but if there is no suitable archiver, you can rename 7z to exe and unpack it as SFX
Also if the file is SFX with .exe extension, it would be handy to alt+f6 them, instead of running SFX(out of harm's way)

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