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NAME
makeself - An utility to generate self-extractable archives.
 
SYNTAX
makeself [options] archive_dir file_name label 
[startup_script] [args]
 
DESCRIPTION
This program is a free (GPL) utility designed to create self-extractable 
archives from a directory. 
 
OPTIONS
The following options are supported.
- -v, --version
- 
Prints out the makeself version number and exits.
- -h, --help
- 
Print out help information.
- --gzip
- 
Compress using gzip (default if detected).
- --bzip2
- 
Compress using bzip2.
- --pbzip2
- 
Compress using pbzip2.
- --xz
- 
Compress using xz.
- --compress
- 
Compress using the UNIX 'compress' command.
- --nocomp
- 
Do not compress the data.
- --complevel lvl
- 
Specify the compression level for gzip,bzip2,pbzui2 or xz
- --notemp
- 
The archive will create archive_dir in the current directory and 
uncompress in ./archive_dir.
- --copy
- 
Upon extraction, the archive will first copy itself to a temporary directory.
- --append
- 
Append more files to an existing makeself archive. The label and startup scripts will then be ignored.
- --current
- 
Files will be extracted to the current directory. Both --current and --target dir imply --notemp.
- --target dir
- 
Extract directly to a target directory. Directory path can be either absolute or relative.
- --header file
- 
Specify location of the header script. 
- --follow
- 
Follow the symlinks in the archive.
- --noprogress
- 
Do not show the progress during the decompression.
- --nox11
- 
Disable automatic spawn of an xterm if running in X11.
- --nowait
- 
Do not wait for user input after executing embedded program from an xterm.
- --nomd5
- 
Do not create a MD5 checksum for the archive.
- --nocrc
- 
Do not create a CRC32 checksum for the archive.
- --lsm file
- 
LSM file describing the package.
AUTHORS
Makeself has been written by Stéphane Peter <megastep@megastep.org>.
ThismanpagewasoriginallywrittenbyBartoszFenski<fenio@o2.pl>forthe
Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but it may be used by others).
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