Re: flash.exe files

2010-12-02 Thread James McKenzie
On 11/30/10 7:50 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Tuesday 30 November 2010 22:31:46 Hiisi wrote: Well, if I have wine installed (and my system is opened for windoze viruses) what should I use to open that flash.exe file? Firefox and flash-player for windoze? Just open a terminal, type wine

flash.exe files

2010-11-30 Thread Hiisi
Hi, List! Correct me if I'm wrong, but there's no way to run windows exe flash movies under linux without wine? I have a foreign language video tutorial packaged for windows users. On the course dvd there's all data (video lessons, images and texts in xml format). Testing it under VirtualBox

Re: flash.exe files

2010-11-30 Thread James McKenzie
On 11/30/10 1:04 AM, Hiisi wrote: Hi, List! Correct me if I'm wrong, but there's no way to run windows exe flash movies under linux without wine? I have a foreign language video tutorial packaged for windows users. On the course dvd there's all data (video lessons, images and texts in xml

Re: flash.exe files

2010-11-30 Thread Hiisi
ti, 2010-11-30 kello 08:50 -0700, James McKenzie kirjoitti: Wine is no less secure than any other program you run on your Linux box in USER space. However, the project highly recommends against running as a super-user. You might want to give it a go since you proved the program is

Re: flash.exe files

2010-11-30 Thread Steve Searle
Around 10:31pm on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 (UK time), Hiisi scrawled: Well, if I have wine installed (and my system is opened for windoze viruses) what should I use to open that flash.exe file? Firefox and flash-player for windoze? I assume that it is a (Windows) executable file and you

Re: flash.exe files

2010-11-30 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 11/30/2010 05:57 PM, Steve Searle wrote: Around 10:31pm on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 (UK time), Hiisi scrawled: Well, if I have wine installed (and my system is opened for windoze viruses) what should I use to open that flash.exe file? Firefox and flash-player for windoze? I assume

Re: flash.exe files

2010-11-30 Thread Hiisi
ti, 2010-11-30 kello 18:01 -0500, Kevin J. Cummings kirjoitti: On 11/30/2010 05:57 PM, Steve Searle wrote: I assume that it is a (Windows) executable file and you don't open in in anything - you just run it. Maybe it's a self executing zip file. If its a self-extracting zip file, then you

Re: flash.exe files

2010-11-30 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 11/30/2010 06:17 PM, Hiisi wrote: On windowz side clicking onto this file results in opening of flash video with menu, links to different lessons, etc. Here's the output of unzip command: ]$ unzip start.exe Archive: start.exe End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this

Re: flash.exe files

2010-11-30 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:38:41 -0500 Kevin J. Cummings wrote: Then its *not* a self-extracting ZIP archive. That doesn't mean it isn't some other kind of self-extracting archive, or even some kind of executable Flash program that I am not aware of One of the things windows KVMs and copy on