Linux Tool to Open Windows Self-Extracting Archives
After a couple of google searches that didn't turn up anything
useful, I ask the following question:
Is there a UNIX utility that will unpack the archives in one of those
Windows .exe executable self-extracting archives?
I want to reverse-engineer a CDROM containing tons of Windows
files and a data base which may be hidden in a .exe file that
self-extracts when run in Windows.
I couldn't care less about all the Win stuff, but I want to look at
the data base.
I believe many of the self-extracters are just an application
that runs winzip on a zip file embedded in the .exe file so it should
be possible to separate the zip file and unzip it.
I am pretty sure AOL installation disks make use of that
mechanism also when customers install AOL on their Windows systems.
I do have zip and unzip on my Debian system so if there is a
way to use unzip on the .exe to extract the archives, then I just need
to know about that.
Thanks for any good ideas.
Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK
OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group
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