Some senseless babbling from John Thompson to Mike Ruskai
on 10-22-99  20:21 about UniMaint ???...

 JT> In a message to MURRAY LESSER, MIKE RUSKAI wrote re: UniMaint ???
 
 MR> I never just execute a self-extractor.  The first few bytes of the file
 MR> usually let on just what type of archive it is, and you can always use
that
 MR> archiver utility to do a manual extraction (of the readme file, of
course).

 JT> Same here.  But the latest release of PMMAIL came in a 
 JT> self-extract format I couldn't open manually.  Looking through 
 JT> the binary it appears to have been made using something called 
 JT> "Crusher!" which I've never heard of.

Yeah, it's a mimic of the self-extracting installation programs you find on
Windows.

I much prefer the approach that Adobe Acrobat uses (though I still don't
know how it was done).  The archive is in standard ZIP format, but
executing it runs the Acrobat installation program.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


... Life is like MS Windows... you never know what you're gonna get.

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