On 04/02/13 13:21, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > On 04/02/13 13:14, Kris Douglas wrote: >> >> What he meant was that there may be zip data inside. Rename the file >> yo something.zip and see if it opens in your Archive viewer. >> >> Ahem. OK. But anyway, to return to my original point and Alan's >> response to it, there's nothing to unzip. >> > I already in effect tried that; when I ran the command 'unzip' on it, > the machine renamed it "sp58586.exe.ZIP" and looked at it and said > "gar nicht," or words to that effect. > >
That looks like it tried to zip it rather than unzip it. Zip and unzip sometimes try to be slightly too clever. Have you tried to humour the computer and actually rename the file "sp58586.zip" before running unzip on it? Bruno -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/