From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 10 8:43:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB30337B401 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 08:43:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.21.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D92E43EA3 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 08:43:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nkinkade@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net) Received: from sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (freebsd.localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9AFqJ2T004728 for ; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 08:52:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nkinkade@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net) Received: (from nkinkade@localhost) by sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g9AFqEmj004727 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 10 Oct 2002 08:52:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nkinkade) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 08:52:14 -0700 From: Nathan Kinkade To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: handling .exe self-extracting archives (Was: vmware) Message-ID: <20021010155214.GB3723@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> References: <3DA4AC33.9010207@myrealbox.com> <3DA4B7F4.4010305@hq.dyns.cx> <20021010044807.GB2247@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> <28325.63.104.35.130.1034262492.squirrel@babylon.polands.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <28325.63.104.35.130.1034262492.squirrel@babylon.polands.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:08:12AM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: > Nathan Kinkade said: > > > > I had Win2k Pro installed on the vmware2 port just a few days ago, > > everything seemed to work find including networking. However, I > > unistalled the whole thing as it is a big ugly beast - both vmware > > and win2k. By the way, does anyone know of a reasonable way to > > get at the contents of *.exe self-extracting archives. This > > problem was what led me to fiddle with vmware in the first place. > > > Nathan, > > unzip from ports works well. There's also a pkzip port that will > probably do the job > > -- > Regards, > Doug Doug, I tried unzip, but it didn't work. Kept compaining that it wasn't a valid archive. I know it was a good archive because I later extracted the very same one with vmware2/Win2k. I found all sorts of info about creating SFX archives and about `unzipsfx', but nothing that worked for a regular .exe self-extracting archive. I've had people tell me that unzip may work sometimes, but under what conditions I'm not sure. I saw the pkzip port, but I couldn't find info anywhere telling me that it would extract .exe formated self-extracting archives. Have you used either of these tools recently to extract these types of pernicious archives? Thanks, Nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message