Unzipping a Windows executable archive

[nmeyers at javalinux.net]

A lot of self-extracting archives are zip, but not all. I've also seen
self-extracting rar archives - you might try unrar.  It's also possible
that it's some proprietary archive format you can't read with a standard
tool.

Nathan


On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 05:23:07PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 05:10:41PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > On Sat, 8 Apr 2006 16:43:54 -0400 (EDT)
> > Scott Ehrlich <scott at MIT.EDU> wrote:
> > 
> > > See if you have zip/unzip for Linux.
> > > 
> > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/1324
> > The first thing I tries was unzip. The file is a self-extracting zip
> > archive (eg. foo.exe). My specific question relates to this. 
> 
> Odd - I have had success in the past using unzip on self-extracting .exe's
> compressed with some zip compressor. Unzip was smart enough to ignore the
> self-extracting wrapper and get to the embedded zipped data.
> 
> Ward.
> 
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