[AppleLaw]

Hello,

Is there a way to run a one-time self-contained Windows *.exe files from either OS X or the Terminal just to extract the files that lie therein?

I've heard of emulators for Classic and possible UNIX workarounds, but I have seen nothing for OS X. Since I don't have Classic installed, any solution would have to be via OS X or the Terminal.

Help?

Thanks.

[suntzu]

In terms of PC files I think the farthest you your go with it is a zip file unless you have Virtual PC. You could create a floppy image and extract it that way.

[Nobody]

Any idea if WINE is working on a port (or Fink)? I just can't pay to use VPC with it out there...

[Nobody]

Just wondering. Can't you use Stuffit to extract the files. After all, that executable is nothing more than a self-extracting zip. Doesn't Stuffit recognize .zip files? Try dragging the exe file to Stuffit and see if Stuffit expands it.

[ 06-02-2002: Message edited by: tahoe ]

[whatsyurprob]

Forget it. Stuffit won't do anything. An .exe is a windows only file. All it will do is load as a doc and give you the message that "the application that created...", and so on. Virtual PC is the only way to do it I believe.

PS Why am I having trouble opening zip files? They download to my desktop and when I click on them I get the same message as an .exe. I thought Mac could unstuff & read zip files.

Officer? I'm "legally" drunk. So whatsyurprob?

[Nobody]

Actually, if it is indeed simply a Windows Self-Extracting Zip file, then StuffIt Expander will decompress it. I just tested it out. (StuffIt Deluxe has the ability to create such files. I simply created one and then decompressed it with StuffIt Expander. However, after decompressing the file I had to designate which program was to open the file.)

[Nobody]

"Any idea if WINE is working on a port (or Fink)? I just can't pay to use VPC with it out there.."

WINE stands for 'WINE is not an emulator".
This basically means that WINE doesn't emulate windows. It uses many windows libraries, and funtions "almost" in the same way as Classic does in Mac OS X. Classic launches OS 9 and requires OS 9 installed, this is the big difference though.

To be able to run WINE on a PPC Mac running OS X, you would need a x86 emulator. You would also need to do some serious porting of WINE, since there isn't any WINE 'native' filesystem used with OS X.

I don't think we will ever see WINE for OS X . If Darwin get's bigger, there might be a WINE port for Darwin on x86 machines.

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