Reading an .exe

[C M Reinehr]

Jorge,

On Tuesday 19 June 2007 07:59, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> I downloaded a thing that is supposed to be a text (a small book):
> http://www.sca.org.br/livros/Confissoes.exe
>
> For reasons I can't begin to understand, it is a binary aimed at users
> of NoGoodOS only. I tried to open it with vim, but nope. file says:
> Confissoes.exe: MS-DOS executable PE  for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386
> 32-bit, UPX compressed
>
> Question: is there any hope at all of somehow extracting the juice? (No,
> I don't have a copy of the said OS.)

My guess is that it is a self-extracting zip file. Try the zip/unzip commands 
from the command line. Also, Ark (KDE) recognizes and opens them 
automagically.

HTH

cmr
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