Re: Using zip command with self-extracting WinZip archives
From: Herb Stein (herb_at_herbstein.com)
Date: 12/13/03
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Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 10:32:00 -0600
"DCTGod" <newsgroups@only.com> wrote in message
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> Hey folks,
>
> I've got a self-extracting executable that was made with WinZip, and I can
> decompress the file on Linux with the unzip command. If I try to add
files
> using zip -A (the -A parameter tells zip that the preamble on the file is
an
> .exe header), the file is corrupted when I try to run it on Windows,
> although on Linux I can still unzip the file correctly.
>
> It appears that zip is incompatible with the preamble stored by WinZip?
Is
> there a way around this?
> --
> Daniel Medeiros
There are DOS-based versions of zip, unzip, zip2exe etc.
that may solve the incompatibility issue. See:
http://www.info-zip.org
-- Herb Stein The Herb Stein Group www.herbstein.com herb@herbstein.com 314 952-4601
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