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From: George Reid <greid@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, John Murphy wrote:

> Not sure what .sfx is about but it seems to be what the port requires.

SFX == SelF eXtract. It's a binary which contains the stuff for the RAR
port; running it extracts the aforementioned stuff just as 'tar zxf
foo.tar.gz' extracts a gzipped tar file.

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