how to run window .exe files in FC1!

Angela Kahealani angela at kahealani.com
Sat Oct 9 22:35:54 UTC 2004


On Saturday 2004-10-09 05:47, louis wang wrote:
> root
> The file System is different between Linux and Windows.The *.exe file
> could not be excute unless you have the dll or other files which is
> used under Windows, So maybe you could  not use these exe files under
> Linux.However there are some exe files individual, so you could use
> wine to mimic an enviroment to use them.

I understand the nonexecutability of WinDblOwS .exe's on Linux, but
I have a related question: some folks distribute (e.g. on the WWW),
downloadable "stuff" which is theoretically NOT an WinDblOwS executable,
but instead some kind of compressed archive, which nevertheless has an 
.exe extension, which I presume means that it is a self-extracting 
archive IFF you have WinDblOwS to execute it on... and the question is:
is there any way to retrieve the contents running Linux, i.e. is there a 
Linux program that knows how to extract the archive's contents, 
ignoring the self-extracting wrapper?

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