Well, it should be called "barf", there's ample reason for it. cabextract http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
If I remember correctly, the file "extract.exe" in MS Win[whatever] extracts them. So cabextract should do the "honours" in Linux. Wesley Parish Quoting Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Windows drivers are sometimes delivered as compressed with a now fairly > ancient scheme. part of which is that the filename is truncated, and > the > last letter of the extension replaced with a underscore. > > (Like printer.ppd becomes printer.pp_) > > In windows 2k one can run the expand utility like: > > expand printer.pp_ printer.ppd > > Is there a utility for *nix which will deal with these files? unzip, > gunzip, barf. Not sure where to go next. > > > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "Sharpened hands are happy hands. "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
