I told him to check the zip and unzip optinos, since those exist, he
should stop there and use that. If it didn't work, the only other way I
see to get it to work %100 is though dosemu. If he has alot of archives
in self extracting zip format this wouldn't be *that* bad of an idea.
Steve Youngs wrote:
>
> 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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