Re: New Chat Client on Cjoyinternet Radio

[Travis Siegel]

While it is true that OSX gui may not recognize these executable  
files, a simple drop to terminal, and typing unzip file.exe will  
still happily do the trick.
The gui bases it's guesses on headers, since the exe header is the  
one it will see, not the zip one, it will try to find something to  
handle the exe, and since there is nothing to do so, it won't work.   
However, I have (many times) extracted exe files on a platform other  
than the one they were created for, and I can tell you with certainty  
that it does work.  If you have a truly self-extracting zip file,  
just run unzip on it, and it will unzip.
If it is not a zip file, but some other kind of executable file that  
may have compressed files in it, but is not really a zip file with an  
exe header on it, then it won't work, as zip will have no idea how to  
interpret the information burried in the file.
Nothing can understand what it wasn't written to handle, so this I  
have no problem with.
Just know that straightforward self-extracting zip files can be  
extracted using the unzip program directly, and not by depending on a  
graphical interface to identify the format for you.  This goes  
equally for windows as it does for OSX or even OS/2.