Hey! Did you see what Rodney Myrvaagnes wrote on Jul 29 ?

RM> Does that mean that unzip could handle it? Presumeably the unzipping code 
RM> in the file would produce garbage if it did. Would that garbage then
RM> be separable?

Nope.  See Lawson Whitney's reply for why. (Basically the embeded zip code
gets ignored) 
 
RM> On Thu, 29 Jul 1999 16:13:21 +1000 (EST), Steve Youngs wrote:
RM> 
RM> >
RM> >On a side note.  A filename.exe self-extracting zip file is exactly the
RM> >same as an ordinary zip file except that it has it's own unzip program
RM> >embeded into the start of the archive.

Regards, Steve Youngs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 34307457
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