Hey! Did you see what Jack Barnett wrote on Jul 28 ?

JB> Greg Sheppard wrote:
JB> > 
JB> >   Is there a linux utility which will extract ms-dos zip self-extracting .exe
JB> > files?
JB> 
JB> There are programs called zip and unzip which are compataible with
JB> pkzip, pkunzip and winzip for the dos/win32 platforms.  They *may* have
JB> an obsecure option somewhere in there for this.  
JB> 
JB> Your best bet though is a dos emulator for linux called dosemu, which
JB> would allow you to run this program "under" dos "under" while running
JB> linux so that
JB> it could self-extract itself onto the linux drive while under linux.

I'd hardly say that installing and configuring dosemu would be his best
bet... A properly configured and running dosemu isn't always that easy to
set up.

All he needs to do in this case is use unzip (man unzip for details)


Regards, Steve Youngs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 34307457
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