> fred smith wrote:
>
> On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 02:19:00AM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> > On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, fred smith wrote:
> >
> > > Say, can any of you point me to a tool for Linux that'll unpack the
> > > contents of those self-extracting .EXE files that MS uses to distribute
> > > stuff?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > It all depends on when they created the file. I have seen several formats
> > of thses file. Some are self extracting ZIP files, and unzip will handle
> > them. If I remember right, some are LHA archives, and lha will work on
> > them. As for the other ones, I am not sure. I use VMware and a copy of
> > Windows 98 to handle them, but I would love to have a Linux tool for them.
>
> A couple of other guys suggested unzip. These files are NOT zip files,
> in fact I can't recall the last time I saw a MS distribution file that
> was. I also tried lharc and it doesn't seem to see the contents of these
> files either.
>
> What I have is a set of fonts that appear to be freely downloadable from
> the MS web site which I'd like to unpack. I know I could go to a Windoze
> box and install them, but I'd rather just extract the parts I want and
> put them where I want them rather than doing a MS-style install.
>
> I seem to recall having seen a reference to a tool that could do that but
> can't think of either its name or where I would have seen the reference.
I use WINE to crack these open, among other purposes. 'Works quite well.
www.winehq.com
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