Re: GNU/linux equivalent to Windows 'expand' command?
`p`p`pOn Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 05:35:08PM +0900, Gernot Hassenpflug wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been trying to use PPDs for some Konica Minolta all-in-ones
> (Bizhub C450 and 550), and the driver pacakges from Win2000 and WinXP
> could be unzipped under linux. However, the contained files are
> compressed and the final characters of the name and extension are
> replaced by an underscore (e.g., kouzza__.pp_). 'file' says that the
> type is 'MS compress'. I am not familiar with that, so I tried
> 'cabextract', 'unzip', 'gunzip', 'bunzip', 'uncompress', and even the
> 'extract' and 'expand' commands. No luck.
>
> After days of searching I eventually gave up and looked for how to do
> this on a Windows machine. It turns out that from the command prompt,
> the 'expand' command extracts the files successfully.
>
> So, is there an equivalant command in GNU/linux?
$ apt-cache search microsoft expand
mscompress - Microsoft "compress.exe/expand.exe" compatible (de)compressor
HTH.
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Kushal Kumaran kushal@it.iitb.ac.in
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