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On Sat, 8 Apr 2006 17:23:07 -0400 Ward Vandewege <ward at pong.be> wrote: > 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. gaf at gaf:~/downloads> unzip SP32158.exe Archive: SP32158.exe End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on the last disk(s) of this archive. unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of SP32158.exe or SP32158.exe.zip, and cannot find SP32158.exe.ZIP, period. On Sat, 8 Apr 2006 18:31:16 -0400 nmeyers at javalinux.net wrote: > 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. Probably. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20060409/5abec1c7/attachment.sig>
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