Re: New Chat Client on Cjoyinternet Radio

[Travis Siegel]

If you have a self-extracting zip file (an exe file) then you can  
simply run unzip on the exe file, and the zip program will ignore the  
exe header, and unzip the file as if the exe portion of the file  
didn't exist.  This can be done with any operating system where a zip  
client exists, regardless of which one created the exe file.  I've  
done this many many times with both dos and windows exe files, on  
several os types, including linux, mac, windows, dos and bsd.
However, if the exe file is simply compressed with zip, but not a  
self-extracting zip then all bets are off, since there will be no zip  
header for the unzip program to see.  There are several installer  
programs that will compress files into an archive, then wrap an  
install process around that file.  In those cases, unzip cannot work,  
but if it's truly only a zip file that has been made self-extracting,  
then there is no difference as far as zip is concerned.