Unzipping a Windows executable archive

John Abreau jabr at blu.org
Sun Apr 9 10:25:21 EDT 2006


Scott Ehrlich wrote:
>> From my experience with zip files, that error usually means the zip 
> archive is messed up and should be rebuilt.
>
> Or, the archive may have been created with a _newer_ version of a 
> Windows-based version of zip your version of unzip cannot handle?
>
> Scott

That's precisely the error message that the Linux unzip gives when you 
try to unzip something that's not a zip archive.  I don't think the 
default assumption should be that the error message probably indicates a 
zip archive.





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