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Pack setup files to single executable setup

I have an old setup of the old program written on c++ which contains multiple installation files files. 

_SETUP.1
_SETUP.DLL
_INST32I.EX_
_ISDEL.EXE
SETUP.EXE
DISK1.ID
SETUP.INI
SETUP.INS
_SETUP.LIB
SETUP.PKG

I want to combine all that in to single executable file and i want to execute SETUP.EXE when user would run that single executable. Is it possible to achieve somehow?

The easiest way is simple create archive and say to user to to unpack that and to run SETUP.EXE but i am just wondering may be i can create setup like i describe above.

Solution

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