Message-ID:	<01FD6EC775C6D4119CDF0090273F74A455A658@emwatent02.meters.com.au>
From:	"da Silva, Joe" <Joe DOT daSilva AT emailmetering DOT com>
To:	"'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	RE: InfoZip & W32 self-extracting archives
Date:	Mon, 4 Jun 2001 12:56:07 +1000
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Yep - that seems to work, too!   ( just tried it :-)

Joe.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Bernie [SMTP:bernie AT mbox302 DOT swipnet DOT se]
> Sent:	Sunday, 3 June 2001 20:41
> To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject:	Re: InfoZip & W32 self-extracting archives
> 
> 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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