Re: Linux Tool to Open Windows Self-Extracting Archives
On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 15:25:44 -0600, Martin McCormick
<martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote:
> 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.
As a bit of a long shot - have you tried just running it through
unzip? I was reading about this the other day - a lot of the time, the
.exe is just a zip file. But I guess there must be some executable
code in there somewhere, but maybe it'll just get ignorred by unzip.
Regards, Joe.
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