[geeks] uncompressing self expanding archives

Brian Hechinger wonko at arkham.ws
Thu Mar 28 16:47:54 CST 2002


On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 04:49:54PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > I've got some press photos here that I'd like to uncompress,
> > unfortuantely they only come in .exe self expanding ZIP files or .sit.
> > 
> > Anyone know how to expand these under Irix?
> 
>   Self-extracting (i.e., .exe) ZIP files can be unzipped with regular
> unix unzip.  Dunno about the StuffIt files.

you can get StuffIt Expander for Solaris, i haven't checked back since i got
the Octane, so i don't know if there is an IRIX version or not.

-brian
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