2009/9/10 Jesús Guerrero <i92gu...@terra.es>: > On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:17:28 +0100, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> 2009/9/10 Adam Carter <adam.car...@optus.com.au>: >>> Did you try running the .exe with wine? >> >> Thanks Adam, I don't have WINE on this old machine, or the space for >> it. Even if I did - how do I find the files (don't know what their >> names are). Is it a matter of running the .exe so that it installs >> and assuming that it does not fail then diff-ing the fs before and >> after, or ls -l -a -t to find the latest files which were modified? > > Well, the installer itself needs to be decompressed to run. Most windows > installers install the intermediate files in c:\windows\temp (which > usually would be ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/temp. Some others create a > temporal dir under c:\ (~/.wine/drive_c). It's a matter of firing > up the installer and go looking around there with each step until > you can find them. > > > By the way, I've tried decompressing the file with 7z and it indeed > extracts 6 files, however I have no idea what they contain.
Hmm ... p7zip does not seem to like it over here - is it different to 7z? $ p7zip -d wg511v2_3_2.exe /usr/bin/p7zip: wg511v2_3_2.exe: unknown suffix -- ignored > It must > be the pieces that installshield chain together. I have no idea if > it's possible to extract something from there or not. There's a big > file called textually '[DATA]', which is the biggest one, so the > stuff must be there. I guess that's the one containing the compressed > files, the rest of the files must be the exe header and the install > shield control into. However I haven't manager to decompress that > '[DATA]' file using anything. > > -- > Jesús Guerrero > > -- Regards, Mick
