At 09:10 05/13/2005 -0700, Carl Lowenstein wrote: >After last night's raffle, I went home and tried to locate a manual >for the mainboard that came in my prize. Eventually I found it on a >website in Taiwan, and downloaded it, only to discover that it was a >.EXE file. > >Eventually I unpacked it, using Windows98 running inside the Qemu >emulator, and using PuTTY to transfer files back and forth. Did I >miss an easier Linux-only way to do this? > >I also learned about having to install "Traditional Chinese" font >support in Acrobat Reader in order to see all of the PDF.
You might have been able to use wine <http://www.winehq.org> to run the exe. Some self-extracting executables are actually DOS programs and can be run in dosemu. You can check the exe file and if the first two bytes are MZ (ascii characters) the file is DOS, not windows. Gus -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
