RE: [newbie] executing an '.exe' file???
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 application/ms-tnef
RE: [newbie] executing an '.exe' file???
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, 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 Which command? Theres quite a few, unzip gunzip bunzip2 funzip unzipsfx
Re: [newbie] executing an '.exe' file???
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Joe Brault wrote: This is probably boring all of you to death, but here goes... I got the disk mounted, butnow I can't execute the executable file I downloaded (pkunzip for linux) How do I do this?? THanks! man unzip rm pkunzip.exe
RE: [newbie] executing an '.exe' file???
On 24-Jul-99 Joe Brault wrote: This is probably boring all of you to death, but here goes... I got the disk mounted, butnow 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
RE: [newbie] executing an '.exe' file???
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Thomas J. Hamman 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, butnow 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 If you really do want to install PK's unzip, try unzip pkunzip.exe, unzip also handles self extracting zip's
Re: [newbie] executing an '.exe' file???
Standard "unzip" which comes with Linux will unzip DOS/Windows ZIP files already. You don't need pkunzip for Linux. - Original Message - From: Joe Brault [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 24, 1999 11:12 AM Subject: [newbie] executing an '.exe' file??? This is probably boring all of you to death, but here goes... I got the disk mounted, butnow I can't execute the executable file I downloaded (pkunzip for linux) How do I do this?? THanks!
