Re: how to run window .exe files in FC1!

From: Mike Noble (mgnoble_at_cox.net)
Date: 10/10/04

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    Angela Kahealani wrote:
    > On Saturday 2004-10-09 05:47, louis wang wrote:
    >
    >>root
    >>The file System is different between Linux and Windows.The *.exe file
    >>could not be excute unless you have the dll or other files which is
    >>used under Windows, So maybe you could not use these exe files under
    >>Linux.However there are some exe files individual, so you could use
    >>wine to mimic an enviroment to use them.
    >
    >
    > I understand the nonexecutability of WinDblOwS .exe's on Linux, but
    > I have a related question: some folks distribute (e.g. on the WWW),
    > downloadable "stuff" which is theoretically NOT an WinDblOwS executable,
    > but instead some kind of compressed archive, which nevertheless has an
    > .exe extension, which I presume means that it is a self-extracting
    > archive IFF you have WinDblOwS to execute it on... and the question is:
    > is there any way to retrieve the contents running Linux, i.e. is there a
    > Linux program that knows how to extract the archive's contents,
    > ignoring the self-extracting wrapper?
    >

    You can learn about the file type by the following command:

    file file.exe

    file will tell you what it can about the file.

    Mike 

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