Quoting Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have tried with WinRAR 1.54, which is available at http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=winrar, and it works. I am not sure if that's 16 or 32-bit, though. The resulting executable does not work, by the way.
> To look into > http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3620 > I wanted to create a 16 bit self-extracting archive. > > So I downloaded > ftp://ftp.pkware.com/pk263w16.exe > and followed the instructions in Help for creating a windows self-extractor. > Sadly, 'file' on the resulting .exe says it's just a zip file. > > The help file says you can convert a .zip to a .exe > using File / Convert, but that crashes with > Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0xffffffff in 16-bit > code (12e7:be9a). > deep inside pkzip. > > So I tried the 32 bit version, which according to > http://www.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/pkzip.html#sfx can > do it cross-platform. > > But when I tried > http://www.filegate.net/pkware/pkwin32/pk250c32.exe > with > wine PKZIP25.EXE -add -sfx=win16 test *.TXT > it said > PKZIP: (E5) Unknown or illegal sub-option - sfx=win16 > which, I think, means you have to be using a registered copy > to do cross-platform self-extractors. > > I also tried the DOS version, and that just hung (grumble). > > Anyone figured out a way to do this yet? > > I filed a bug for a console problem related to pkzip, > http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10884 > but not the crash yet. > Perhaps the failure to create a real self-extractor > is another bug, I haven't tried on windows xp yet. > - Dan > > > -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
