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John Doe
Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 1689 Location: Michigan, US
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Posted: Wed 31 Aug 2005, 03:33 Post subject:
Can I extract a self extracting exe without winrar? |
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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?
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GuestToo
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Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 4078
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Posted: Wed 31 Aug 2005, 03:44 Post subject:
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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
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John Doe
Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 1689 Location: Michigan, US
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Posted: Wed 31 Aug 2005, 19:38 Post subject:
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GuestToo wrote: | unzip the-file-name.exe |
This didn't work
To try it, I actually had to rename the file with a .zip extension.
GuestToo wrote: | unrar the-file-name.exe |
This gives me an error also. I had to use the 'e' command and it says:
SP23107.rar is not a RAR archive.
I checked it out on google and it looks like some you can and some you can't. It depends on whether or not the zip/exe is created as a multi-disk archive:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.os.linux.suse/browse_thread/thread/fdf4f2965a012846/48b95eda66c366dc
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Bruce B
Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 11488 Location: The Peoples Republic of California
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Posted: Wed 31 Aug 2005, 21:06 Post subject:
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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.
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John Doe
Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 1689 Location: Michigan, US
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Posted: Thu 01 Sep 2005, 03:05 Post subject:
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Bruce B wrote: | If you post the link to the file, I'll see what if anything I can do. |
Thanks for the offer, I appreciate the concern. I don't have a problem getting at the files on one of my windows machines. I was more currious from the aspect of just knowing how to do it from this os.
I'll have to check out wine some time soon. I have minGW and cygwin running under windows, so why not wine running under linux?
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Bruce B
Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 11488 Location: The Peoples Republic of California
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Posted: Thu 01 Sep 2005, 11:55 Post subject:
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John Doe wrote: | I'll have to check out wine some time soon. I have minGW and cygwin running under windows, so why not wine running under linux? |
Wine gets better with age. Wine on Linux is usually an easy setup, the problem is wine on Puppy. I ran into some snags trying to get it working. It wasn't important enough to me to have it to work through the snags.
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ejmv
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Posted: Thu 01 Sep 2005, 14:48 Post subject:
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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
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gliezl

Joined: 06 Aug 2005 Posts: 322 Location: Manila
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Posted: Sat 03 Sep 2005, 19:20 Post subject:
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Bruce B wrote: | John Doe wrote: | I'll have to check out wine some time soon. I have minGW and cygwin running under windows, so why not wine running under linux? |
Wine gets better with age. Wine on Linux is usually an easy setup, the problem is wine on Puppy. I ran into some snags trying to get it working. It wasn't important enough to me to have it to work through the snags. |
Is ther a Dotpup for wine?
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Bruce B
Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 11488 Location: The Peoples Republic of California
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Posted: Mon 05 Sep 2005, 03:48 Post subject:
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gliezl, there is no wine dotpup yet, but theoretically, and maybe in truth and reality there is wine in the making.
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