SFX

File Format
Name	SFX
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Archiving SFX
Extension(s)	.sfx

For self-extracting archives in general, see Archiving#Self-extracting archives.

SFX (Self-Extracting Archive) is an archive format for the Commodore 64 and 128 consisting of files compressed in the LHA format and appended to a program to extract them, so that the archive and its extractor is self-contained and no other program needs to be downloaded or installed in order to extract the archive. Unlike the SDA format (which this one succeeded), the extractor is cross-compatible between both Commodore platforms (C-64 and C-128).

Software

• Unar
• DirMaster

Sample files

• http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/c64/games/index.html → *.sfx
• dexvert samples — archive/selfExtractingLHA

Links

• Format info