On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
>
> On 24-Jul-99 Joe Brault wrote:
> > This is probably boring all of you to death, but here goes... I got the disk
> > mounted, butnow I can't execute the executable file I downloaded (pkunzip for
> > linux) How do I do this?? THanks!
> >
> >
> >
>
> An .exe file? Are you SURE it's for Linux? .exe files are generally Windows
> executables, which will not run in Linux. Technically you COULD rename a Linux
> binary file with an .exe extension... but I've never seen a program distributed
> for Linux with that extension.
>
> Anyway, make sure the file is set to be executable (type 'chmod +x <filename>'
> if it isn't), and from the directory it's in type './<entire-filename>' (without
> the quotes of course) to try running it. If that doesn't work, that file is
> probably meant for DOS/Windows.
>
> And you shouldn't need pkunzip in Linux anyway. If you've installed Mandrake,
> you already have a program called unzip which deals with pkzipped files. And
> most files you download for Linux are in tar.gz format, which you use tar and
> gzip for.
>
>
> -Tom
>
If you really do want to install PK's unzip, try unzip pkunzip.exe, unzip
also handles self extracting zip's
