Wise installer package

File Format
Name	Wise installer package
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Archiving Wise installer package
Extension(s)	.exe
Released	~1992

Wise installer package refers to the self-extracting Windows executable files created by Wise Installation System and its successors (Wise Package Studio, etc.). Wise Installation System is a discontinued application from Wise Solutions.

It uses DEFLATE compression. Several utilities have been developed to directly extract the component files. Evidently, it's challenging to support all the different format variants.

Software

• E_WISE - Pascal software by Veit Kannegieser
  • https://kannegieser.net/veit/programm/index_e.htm ...
  • e_wise.zip
• exwise - C software by Andrew de Quincey
  • exwise05.zip
  • https://github.com/lmop/exwise
• HWUN - Pascal software by Jägermeister Markus
• WiseUnpacker - C# library by Matt Nadareski(?). Based on E_WISE and HWUN.

Links

• Wikipedia: Wise Solutions
• Wise Solutions website (1998 archive)