[ILUG] Self extracting zips.

[P at draigBrady.com]

Chris Collins wrote:
> Anybody have any ideas as to how to handle self extracting zip files
> (.exe) under linux.

unzip handles them fine.

Note you may find this useful:
http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/cabextract.php
And the author is looking at adding support
for more M$ formats very soon:
http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/libmspack/

Note the common rar format is also supported:
http://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-3.3.0.tar.gz
http://www.rarlab.com/rar/unrarsrc-3.3.4.tar.gz

On a related note, I found the Archive Compression Test
very interesting: http://compression.ca/

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