I've used zip (quite recently in fact) to extract .exe archives. No idea why/when it does/doesn't work, though.
On Thursday 10 October 2002 11:52 am, Nathan Kinkade wrote: | On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:08:12AM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: | > Nathan Kinkade said: | > > I had Win2k Pro installed on the vmware2 port just a few days | > > ago, everything seemed to work find including networking. | > > However, I unistalled the whole thing as it is a big ugly beast - | > > both vmware and win2k. By the way, does anyone know of a | > > reasonable way to get at the contents of *.exe self-extracting | > > archives. This problem was what led me to fiddle with vmware in | > > the first place. | > | > Nathan, | > | > unzip from ports works well. There's also a pkzip port that will | > probably do the job | > | > -- | > Regards, | > Doug | | Doug, | I tried unzip, but it didn't work. Kept compaining that it wasn't | a valid archive. I know it was a good archive because I later | extracted the very same one with vmware2/Win2k. I found all | sorts of info about creating SFX archives and about `unzipsfx', | but nothing that worked for a regular .exe self-extracting archive. | I've had people tell me that unzip may work sometimes, but under | what conditions I'm not sure. | | I saw the pkzip port, but I couldn't find info anywhere telling me | that it would extract .exe formated self-extracting archives. Have | you used either of these tools recently to extract these types of | pernicious archives? | | Thanks, | Nathan | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
