[LBo] Re: warning when unzipping files

[Robert Spangler]

On Wed April 18 2007 11:25, Stefan Waidele wrote:

>  Anita Lewis schrieb:
>  > [...]
>  > That doesn't explain why this happens,
>
>  Oh, it does explain. Let me (try to) translate to plain english:
>
>  Self-extracting Zipfiles are a platform-dependant hack. The fact that
>  they can be extracted by regular unzippers is not due to the "clever
>  design" of the hack itself, but to the forgivefullness of the
>  unzip-program, which merely spits out the warning instead of aborting
>  with an "invalid input file error".
>
>  Making sense?

Nope.  The only self-extracting zip files I have ever seen were Windows Zip 
files and they all ended in '.exe' not '.zip'  This file ends in '.zip' which 
is telling me that this isn't one of those self-extracting ones.

Granted I could and may very well be wrong here.  If you know of a 
self-extracting zip file for linux then please point me in that direction as 
I want to see it work too.


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Regards
Robert

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