Re: tlug: question about zip executables

[Jonathan Q <jq@example.com>]

On Mon, 10 May 1999, Eric S. Standlee wrote:

> A friend sent a winzip exe file and I was wondering how to open it.

First, slap your friend and tell them not to do things like that  :-)

Those self-extracting zips are a Windows executable binary, so your
choices AFAIK are limited to running it under Wine (will probably work) or
having your friend send a normal zip file (which will also be smaller).

Jonathan

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