unpack win32 exe file

[Chris Whitehouse]

Lars Kristiansen wrote:
> Chris Whitehouse skrev:
>> Rob wrote:
>>> Chris Whitehouse wrote:
>>>> I have a Windows executable file (.exe) which in a Windows 
>>>> environment would be run to extract some files which it contains. Is 
>>>> there any  way I can extract the files on my FreeBSD system? I've 
>>>> tried unzip, gunzip and archivers/upx with various extensions, zip, 
>>>> exe, gz etc but they all 
>>>
>>> There are many types of self-extracting archive files under windows.  
>>> If it's one that's based on PKZip, then there's a good chance you 
>>> could get it with 7-Zip:  http://www.7-zip.org/  Otherwise, you need 
>>> a windoze system or emulator I suspect.
>>>
>>>   -Rob
>>>
>>>
>> Someone else suggested 7-zip as well but still no joy. I don't think 
>> it's worth installing Wine just for this so it's time to find a 
>> windows box
> 
> Was the result with 7zip negative?
> http://www.freshports.org/archivers/p7zip/

Unfortunately yes:

%p7zip -d iata78_enu.exe
/usr/local/bin/p7zip: iata78_enu.exe: unknown suffix
%mv iata78_enu.exe iata78_enu.7z
%p7zip -d iata78_enu.7z

7-Zip (A) 4.57  Copyright (c) 1999-2007 Igor Pavlov  2007-12-06
p7zip Version 4.57 (locale=en_GB.ISO8859-15,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,2 CPUs)

Processing archive: iata78_enu.7z

Error: Can not open file as archive

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Chris