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On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Jerry Feldman wrote: > 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. >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
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