Re: how to run window .exe files in FC1!

[Mike Noble <mgnoble cox net>]

Angela Kahealani wrote:
> 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?

You can learn about the file type by the following command:

file file.exe

file will tell you what it can about the file.

Mike
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