Re: mscompress
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 05:59:36 -0800 (PST)
Angus Auld <aonghas_auld@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Nyizsnyik Ferenc <nyizsa@bluebottle.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:17:23 -0800
> > "David Fox" <dfox94085@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On 1/25/08, Angus Auld <aonghas_auld@yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > Way above my head, but interesting just the
> > same. I
> > > > just
> > > > sort of wanted to know how to use mscompress to
> > > > de-compress
> > >
> > > Angus:
> > >
> > > I think you'll find that ordinary unzip or 7zip
> > can do that for you.
> > > There basically are two kinds of compressed
> > executables
> > >
> > > 1) the executable archive, basically a zip file
> > with a little bit of
> > > program code that basically says to "unzip me".
> > These files are far
> > > more common, and handle very well on Linux.
> > >
> > > 2) the "expand" type compressed exes. These are
> > distinct because they
> > > all have a trailing _ as part of their name, and
> > only seems to be
> > > common on Windows installation media, to save
> > space on the disks. I
> > > don't think there is a tool that will handle this
> > natively on Linux.
> > >
> >
> > Actually mscompress and msexpand were made to handle
> > this type of files.
> >
> > --
> > Szia:
> > Nyizsa.
>
> That is what the sparse description, and the even
> sparser documentation would indicate, at least to me
> it did. :)
>
> I have tried unzip, and it will not handle exe's. I
> have not tried
> 7zip, since I do not have that prog installed, but
> documentation
> indicates that it will not either.
>
> I will not trouble the list any further on this issue.
>
>
> Thanks to all who responded.
> Best regards.
>
> -- Angus
>
One more thing, just to clarify things:
msexpand is not for zipped exe files, it is for compressed files on the
windows install media, like, for example, notepad.ex_ and winipsec.dl_.
They were compressed by (ms)compress and will be expanded as notepad.exe
and winipsec.dll.
--
Szia:
Nyizsa.
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