Shoutbox

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Originally posted by MoZo1
It's a rar and the SFX archives can be decompressed with your compressing program too. It's not a format. It's an extension. This is the reason why I'am use it. And the decompressors also have the option to remove the sfx module without decompress the file.
And I've tryed to not compress, but I cannot upload more than 200kB

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The extension is EXE (which only runs on Windows). So how the hell was I meant to know it's a RAR archive? Do you think I'm some sort of computer psychic? Do you think I have the time to analyse file headers just to find out what format they are?
There's a reason file extensions exist - they're a clue to the format of the file. Just about everyone will see EXE and think 'program'. Not a single one will think 'RAR archive'.
And another thing: even if it was a RAR file, there's no guarantee I could decompress that on Linux. If you really want to compress something, use ZIP - a decompessor exists for pretty much any system.