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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

self extracting archive

When a number of files have been combined into one, usually for purposes of reducing the size for upload and download, a self extracting archive will separate out the files when it is executed, without the need for a separate extraction program.

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