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Date:      Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:34:27 +0000
From:      Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com>
To:        Rob <bitabyss@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: unpack win32 exe file
Message-ID:  <47816583.5060303@onetel.com>
In-Reply-To: <4780EDE2.30801@gmail.com>
References:  <47800E4B.8000302@onetel.com> <4780EDE2.30801@gmail.com>

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Rob wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
Someone else suggested 7-zip as well but still no joy. I don't think 
it's worth installing Wine just for this so it's time to find a windows box

thanks for replies

Chris



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