Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[John Doe]

In windows one can extract a "self extracting exe" with winrar. I tried unrar and couldn't get it to do the same (perhaps I missed the right switch).

Anyone know the answer or have another solution?

[GuestToo]

you should be able to unzip a self-extracting file

try opening the file with TkZip

if it's a zip file you can type (in an rxvt window)
unzip the-file-name.exe

if it's a rar file, you can type:
unrar the-file-name.exe

[John Doe]

[Bruce B]

If you post the link to the file, I'll see what if anything I can do.

I've had success running the self-extracting W32 files with wine. But that doesn't help with Puppy, because no one yet (to my knowledge) has got wine runningin Puppy, much less created a pupget or dotpup.

[John Doe]

[Bruce B]

[ejmv]

if you know the format is ZIP, under linux, "unzip thefile.exe" works, at least from newer versions.
I suppose unrar (or rar) and other will work the same way.
I remember a couple of years ago, most of these un(compressors) did not interpret the extra code of the EXE version.
But, unzip/unrar do the work nowadays

[gliezl]

[Bruce B]

gliezl, there is no wine dotpup yet, but theoretically, and maybe in truth and reality there is wine in the making.