On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:39:11 +0100, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
I've used the 7z binary that comes shipped with p7zip-4.65 in Gentoo. The command I used was $ 7z x wg511v2_3_2.exe 7-Zip 4.65 Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Igor Pavlov 2009-02-03 p7zip Version 4.65 (locale=es_ES.utf8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,1 CPU) Processing archive: wg511v2_3_2.exe Extracting .text Extracting .rdata Extracting .data Extracting .rsrc Extracting CERTIFICATE Extracting [data-1] Everything is Ok Files: 6 Size: 18794632 Compressed: 18798728 I reviewed the ebuild, just in case, and it doesn't apply any strange patch so it must be a standard feature. I haven't much experience with p7zip itself, but it doesn't seem to be quite the same than 7z. 7z serves as a frontend for many compression algorithms. It can surely open most compressed formats around. -- Jesús Guerrero
