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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking a .exe file
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:30:04
Message-Id: 200909092329.36030.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Unpacking a .exe file by Mick
1 On Mittwoch 09 September 2009, Mick wrote:
2 > Hi All,
3 >
4 > I seem to be having problems unpacking a particular wireless driver. I
5 > tried both unzip and cabextract and neither will do the deed:
6 > =======================================================
7 > $ unzip -l wg511v2_3_2.exe
8 > Archive: wg511v2_3_2.exe
9 > End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
10 > a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
11 > latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
12 > the last disk(s) of this archive.
13 > note: wg511v2_3_2.exe may be a plain executable, not an archive
14 > unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of wg511v2_3_2.exe or
15 > wg511v2_3_2.exe.zip, and cannot find wg511v2_3_2.exe.ZIP, period.
16 >
17 > $ cabextract -l wg511v2_3_2.exe
18 > wg511v2_3_2.exe: no valid cabinets found
19 >
20 > All done, errors in processing 1 file(s)
21 > =======================================================
22 >
23 > Last time I used cabextract (more than a couple of years now) I don't
24 > recall having such problems. How can I troubleshoot this, or how else can
25 > I extract the .sys files from in there?
26 >
27
28 what does file says about that file? and doesn't need zip a .zip ending?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking a .exe file Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>