I found that you can use an online converted to take a whole zip folder of (in my case, light-weight text files or png images) and make just one Base64 string from it! (https://www.browserling.com/tools/file-to-base64)
That's cool, so supposedly it works and now I am thinking I can write this down into the filesystem using the binary encoding, maybe I'll get a zip file out of it on which I'll do file.execute() and get the user started on unzipping it. But any time I wrote anything, it was text! So I thought, maybe I have to use the atob() function which does not exist in ExtendScript to convert it to binary first?
Well, I tried this below polyfill - the only one I could find and all it does is crash my Illustrator.
https://github.com/MaxArt2501/base64-js
Anyone have a solution that will write an executable zip file from a string?
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