On 26-Jul-99 Joseph Gardner wrote:
> On 24-Jul-99 Joe Brault wrote:
>> This is probably boring all of you to death, but here goes... I got the
>> disk
>> mounted, but now I can't execute the executable file I downloaded (pkunzip
>> for
>> linux) How do I do this?? Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>
> An .exe file? Are you SURE it's for Linux? .exe files are generally Windows
> executables, which will not run in Linux. Technically you COULD rename a
> Linux binary file with an .exe extension... but I've never seen a program
> distributed for Linux with that extension.
> Anyway, make sure the file is set to be executable (type 'chmod +x
> <filename>' if it isn't), and from the directory it's in type
> './<entire-filename>' (without the quotes of course) to try running it. If
> that doesn't work, that file is probably meant for DOS/Windows.
> And you shouldn't need pkunzip in Linux anyway. If you've installed
> Mandrake, you already have a program called unzip which deals with pkzipped
> files. And most files you download for Linux are in tar.gz format, which you
> use tar and gzip for.
>
> -Tom
>
>
> I thought the command was gunzip ???
>
> Joe
gunzip is for gzipped (.gz) files. unzip is for pkzipped (.zip) files.
-Tom
