Bat Lang wrote in a message to Jack Stein:

 JS> OS2C claims to handle ZIP, ARJ and LHZ self-extracting archives, and
 JS> it does, perfectly.

 BL> What have you been smoking in your pipe, JS? I will concede
 BL> that it will sometimes handle selfex archives, but just like
 BL> PM, I have many more instances of it's annoying 'Oops, this
 BL> seems to be an archive that I don't recognize'. I'd estimate
 BL> about an 8/9 "Oops" for every one it handled properly. PM's
 BL> experience is similar. That's pretty far removed from
 BL> "perfectly". }^: Might be better described as "barely". {^; 

I guess it depends on what made the self-exe archive.

 BL> I examined their innards with a viewer, these are their
 BL> parentage: Unzipsfx, PKSfx or PE32E.SFX (one).

I reckon OS2C does not support these brands.  BTW, it does support RAR
self-extractors also, even though not mentioned in the docs, unless my RAR
files are made with some other self-exe program.

 BL> These files represent the current upgrade path for Warp, and
 BL> they are only available as selfex's. The two primary (if I
 BL> may) ZIP archivers for OS/2 have been (are) Infozips and the
 BL> PKZ25? for OS/2. This is also reflected in the parentage of
 BL> those files above, coming from IBM. Any util that calls
 BL> itself an OS/2 file manager, with a claimed selfex feature,
 BL> but fails on the above group of files crafted specifically
 BL> for OS/2, is misleading its public at best. IMHO. YMMV. {^;
 BL> To qualify that statement, I am a registered user of OS2C.

You have a point there, but to me the problem is not with that anyway, the
problem is the stuped people using self-exe's to begin with, they should be
tarred and feathered.

                                              Jack 
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