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InstEd vs Makeself

A side-by-side look at InstEd and Makeself. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

InstEd

InstEd

Development

InstEd is a free, open source text editor and Unicode-aware programming editor for macOS. It includes features like syntax highlighting for numerous programming languages and text encodings, line numbering, folding, split windows, regular expression find/replace, and more.

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Makeself

Makeself

Os & Utilities

Makeself is a small shell script that generates a self-extractable tarball for Unix. It packages software into a single executable file for easy distribution and installation.

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