DeSEA 1.5 - With the large number of multiple compression utilities, everyone has begun to create self-extracting archives (SEAs). While this is all-and-well, self-extracting archives add to the file sizes of files being transferred. While 10-20K for the self-extraction code isn’t much, it rapidly adds up over multiple transfers. In addition, the use of self-extraction features on small files can often cause the file to be larger than the original, uncompressed file. DeSEA removes the self-extraction code from a self-extracting archive. DeSEA is currently configured for the three most popular compression programs - Compact Pro, Disk Doubler (pre-4.0 and 4.0), and StuffIt Classic/Deluxe as well as NOW Compress. DeSEA can be extended to support other formats without relying on the author of DeSEA (that’s me) to release a new version (see docs).
