flash.exe files

Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Tue Nov 30 23:38:41 UTC 2010


On 11/30/2010 06:17 PM, Hiisi wrote:
> On windowz side clicking onto this file results in opening of flash
> video with menu, links to different lessons, etc.
> Here's the output of unzip command:
> ]$ unzip start.exe
> Archive:  start.exe
>   End-of-central-directory signature not found.  Either this file is not
>   a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive.  In the
>   latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
>   the last disk(s) of this archive.
> unzip:  cannot find zipfile directory in one of start.exe or
>         start.exe.zip, and cannot find start.exe.ZIP, period.

Then its *not* a self-extracting ZIP archive.  That doesn't mean it
isn't some other kind of self-extracting archive, or even some kind of
executable Flash program that I am not aware of....

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