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Subject: Re: unpack win32 exe file
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Chris Whitehouse wrote:
> I have a Windows executable file (.exe) which in a Windows environment 
> would be run to extract some files which it contains. Is there any  way 
> I can extract the files on my FreeBSD system? I've tried unzip, gunzip 
> and archivers/upx with various extensions, zip, exe, gz etc but they all 

There are many types of self-extracting archive files under windows.  If 
it's one that's based on PKZip, then there's a good chance you could get 
it with 7-Zip:  http://www.7-zip.org/  Otherwise, you need a windoze 
system or emulator I suspect.

   -Rob