On Thu January 24 2008, Angus Auld wrote: > Thanks for your reply Paul. So, if I understand, a > windows binary > installation package .exe isn't like a nix binary like > .deb or .rpm?
not exactly. look for the homepage, maybe it explains better: MsCompress for Windows MsCompress: compress data using LZ77 algorithm Version 0.3 Description MsCompress is a Microsoft "compress.exe/expand.exe" compatible (de)compressor. This package contains two programs: * msexpand, which decompresses files compressed by Microsoft compress.exe utility (e.g. Win 3.x installation files) * mscompress, which compresses files using LZ77 compression algorithm. Output files can be decompressed using Microsoft expand.exe or msexpand(1). Homepage ftp://ftp.penguin.cz/pub/users/mhi/mscompress > I thought it was, well sort of anyway. > What exactly is mscompress/msexpand supposed to do? > > I want to extract some icons from an MSN_Messenger.exe > > binary package. Is there no way to do that? no, you don't extract icons from an EXE. try google: icons msn messenger I got this site ( for one): http://www.msnicon.com/ it has 3,000 icons > > Sorry if I have misunderstood. no need to be sorry, we are all learning here! -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]