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On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann |
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<volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Mittwoch 09 September 2009, Mick wrote: |
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>> Hi All, |
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>> |
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>> I seem to be having problems unpacking a particular wireless driver. I |
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>> tried both unzip and cabextract and neither will do the deed: |
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>> ======================================================= |
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>> $ unzip -l wg511v2_3_2.exe |
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>> Archive: wg511v2_3_2.exe |
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>> End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not |
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>> a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the |
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>> latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on |
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>> the last disk(s) of this archive. |
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>> note: wg511v2_3_2.exe may be a plain executable, not an archive |
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>> unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of wg511v2_3_2.exe or |
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>> wg511v2_3_2.exe.zip, and cannot find wg511v2_3_2.exe.ZIP, period. |
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>> |
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>> $ cabextract -l wg511v2_3_2.exe |
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>> wg511v2_3_2.exe: no valid cabinets found |
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>> |
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>> All done, errors in processing 1 file(s) |
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>> ======================================================= |
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>> |
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>> Last time I used cabextract (more than a couple of years now) I don't |
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>> recall having such problems. How can I troubleshoot this, or how else can |
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>> I extract the .sys files from in there? |
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> what does file says about that file? and doesn't need zip a .zip ending? |
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Self-extracting ZIP (and other archive format) files from DOS, |
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Windows, OS/2, etc are usually an executable program with ZIP file |
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appended. The stub program knows to seek to the end of its executable |
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data to look for the archive it is to extract and unzip (etc) are able |
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to detect this stub and bypass it. |
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I googled the file wg511v2_3_2.exe and downloaded it. It is a |
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InstallShield program, containing an MSI containing a CAB. AFAIK there |
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are no Linux programs that are able to unpack -current- versions of |
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InstallShield. |
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I am on Windows XP right now (at work), I have unpacked the contents |
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and can email them to the OP or upload somewhere if you'd like. Let me |
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know. |
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