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From: Bernie <bernie AT mbox302 DOT swipnet DOT se>
Subject: Re: InfoZip & W32 self-extracting archives
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Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 12:41:06 +0200
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Joe wrote:
>If you need to extract files from a Windoze 32 self-extracting
>(executable) archive that uses ZIP compression, forget about
>PKZIP, it just gets confused!

Actually this often works for those files:

pkzipfix program.exe
pkunzip -d pkfixed.zip

But I can't understand what it is that they have done with the exe file to
make it non-compatible.
//Bernie

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