How about 'mscompress' Description: Microsoft compress.exe/expand.exe compatible (de)compressor
Marked as testing in portage Note I have not used this. Regards John >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 22/09/2005 1:37:37 p.m. >>> 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]> ********************************************************************** Check out our web site: http://www.cdhb.govt.nz This email and attachments have been scanned for content and viruses and is believed to be clean This email or attachments may contain confidential or legally privileged information intended for the sole use of the addressee(s). Any use, redistribution, disclosure, or reproduction of this message, except as intended, is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please notify the sender and remove all copies of the message, including any attachments. Any views or opinions expressed in this email (unless otherwise stated) may not represent those of Canterbury District Health Board **********************************************************************
