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Re: GNU/linux equivalent to Windows 'expand' command?



Kushal Kumaran <kushal@it.iitb.ac.in> writes:

> `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

Dang, I tried that but it did not work. Maybe I did it wrong...ah, I
did not notice that there is a msexpand command now, thanks!
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