Unzipping a Windows executable archive

[ward at pong.be (Ward Vandewege)]

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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