SFXWizard General Information



Our goal was to write a program of simple and easy management and a transparent user interface being able to deal with any kind of compression tasks supporting the creation of so called SelF-eXtracting Archive files along with other wide-spread archive types.

We realized that notable deficiencies of the known compressing utilities beside not having a complex multilingual user interface are that they are also incapable of sorting files into different folders. Users can usually extract the whole set of compressed files into a predefined (usually Temp) folder. Most compressors instead of supporting multilevel compressing tasks only allow you to add one folder or file.

Features

• Simple, easy-to-use and multilingual user interface*.
• Self-eXtracting Archive files support having complex, multilingual user interface
• Effective compression. You can achieve a 30-40% size compression with sfx compared to other archive formats.
• Creating well-known file types (zip, bh, cab, jar, tar, tar.gz)
• Adding several folders and files simultaneously
• List of files to be compressed (size, pieces, filenames) is checkable before compressing
• Handling exceptions
• Filtering files to be compressed according to date, size and attribute
• Using environment variables
• You can determine where you want your archives to be extracted. You can extract each file into different folders meaning you can get your extracted file to its original location.
• You can create a shortcut* making extracted filed executable*.
• You can save each compressing project for reuse (SFXWizard project file - SFW).
• Customizable graphic appearance support in created archives.

• In this example a mixed folder containing different kinds of files like txt, exe, bmp, jpg, zip, rar, etc. is compressed. The below table shows you how sfx file format is 40% more efficient than traditional zip.

• In the following example a compression of purely text files has occurred. You can see that this resulted in a 86% better compression than the traditional zip.