You could try "wine -winver=[NT|XP] expand -[whatever]" (shrugs.) It might work. But you'd need to have a copy of the expand.exe somewhere in wine's path. :-)
Wesley Parish Quoting Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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]> > > "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
