On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:16:36 +1200 (NZST) Wesley Parish wrote: > 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
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/Brother/UK-ENG $ cabextract bm7820n.pp_ Extracting cabinet: bm7820n.pp_ bm7820n.pp_: not a Microsoft cabinet file. next please :-) > > 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 -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
