> A few days ago there were a bunch of Web pages about Stallman's rebuttal to
> Craig Mundie.  One of them I saw mentioned that the questions MS was
> distributing to the crowd were available as a self extracting archive ( a .exe
> file).  RMS said that gunzip knew how to extract these.
> 
> 
> Does anyone know how to get the content out of a self extracting Windows
> archive ?  I can't figure it out.  

unzip filename.exe

Works like a champ.  gzip doesn't know diddly about the PC-based zip, as
gzip only does compression, but no archiving, whereas the PC's zip (which
is really just an "upgrade" by Phil Katz ("Mr. PKWare") of the old ARC
standard) knows all about both compression and archiving.


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