--- Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com> wrote:

> On Thu January 24 2008, Angus Auld wrote:
> > Whenever I run "msexpand *.exe" I get the
> following
> > response:
> >
> > conky@conky2008:~/tmp/expand$ msexpand
> > Install_Messenger.exe
> > Install_Messenger.exe: Doesn't end with underscore
> --
> > ignored
>
> a _file.exe is a compressed exe that is usually
> found an an install CD, like a
> windows XP install CDROM. It is not a ZIP file, full
> of other compressed
> files.
> so you would run uncompress _file.exe and end up
> with file.exe
>
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> Paul Cartwright
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> Registered Ubuntu User #12459
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Thanks for your reply Paul. So, if I understand, a
windows binary
installation package .exe isn't like a nix binary like
..deb or .rpm?
I thought it was, well sort of anyway.
What exactly is mscompress/msexpand supposed to do?

I want to extract some icons from an MSN_Messenger.exe

binary package. Is there no way to do that?

Sorry if I have misunderstood.

Best regards.


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--- Angus Auld <aonghas_auld@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> --- Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu January 24 2008, Angus Auld wrote:
> > > Whenever I run "msexpand *.exe" I get the
> > following
> > > response:
> > >
> > > conky@conky2008:~/tmp/expand$ msexpand
> > > Install_Messenger.exe
> > > Install_Messenger.exe: Doesn't end with
> underscore
> > --
> > > ignored
> >
> > a _file.exe is a compressed exe that is usually
> > found an an install CD, like a
> > windows XP install CDROM. It is not a ZIP file,
> full
> > of other compressed
> > files.
> > so you would run uncompress _file.exe and end up
> > with file.exe
> >
> > --
> > Paul Cartwright
> > Registered Linux user # 367800
> > Registered Ubuntu User #12459
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> Thanks for your reply Paul. So, if I understand, a
> windows binary
> installation package .exe isn't like a nix binary
> like
> .deb or .rpm?
> I thought it was, well sort of anyway.
> What exactly is mscompress/msexpand supposed to do?
>
> I want to extract some icons from an
> MSN_Messenger.exe
>
> binary package. Is there no way to do that?
>
> Sorry if I have misunderstood.
>
> Best regards.
>
>
> -- Angus
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I forgot to mention in my last reply that "uncompress
*.exe"
didn't work either.
Uncompress returns "unknown suffix -- ignored"

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On Thu January 24 2008, Angus Auld wrote:
> Thanks for your reply Paul. So, if I understand, a
> windows binary
> installation package .exe isn't like a nix binary like
> .deb or .rpm?

not exactly. look for the homepage, maybe it explains better:

MsCompress for Windows

MsCompress: compress data using LZ77 algorithm
Version

0.3
Description

MsCompress is a Microsoft "compress.exe/expand.exe" compatible (de)compressor.
This package contains two programs:

* msexpand, which decompresses files compressed by Microsoft compress.exe
utility (e.g. Win 3.x installation files)
* mscompress, which compresses files using LZ77 compression algorithm.
Output files can be decompressed using Microsoft expand.exe or msexpand(1).

Homepage

ftp://ftp.penguin.cz/pub/users/mhi/mscompress


> I thought it was, well sort of anyway.
> What exactly is mscompress/msexpand supposed to do?
>
> I want to extract some icons from an MSN_Messenger.exe
>
> binary package. Is there no way to do that?

no, you don't extract icons from an EXE. try google:
icons msn messenger
I got this site ( for one):

http://www.msnicon.com/

it has 3,000 icons
>
> Sorry if I have misunderstood.

no need to be sorry, we are all learning here!


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--- Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com> wrote:

> On Thu January 24 2008, Angus Auld wrote:
> > Thanks for your reply Paul. So, if I understand, a
> > windows binary
> > installation package .exe isn't like a nix binary
> like
> > .deb or .rpm?
>
> not exactly. look for the homepage, maybe it
> explains better:
>
> MsCompress for Windows
>
> MsCompress: compress data using LZ77 algorithm
> Version
>
> 0.3
> Description
>
> MsCompress is a Microsoft "compress.exe/expand.exe"
> compatible (de)compressor.
> This package contains two programs:
>
> * msexpand, which decompresses files compressed
> by Microsoft compress.exe
> utility (e.g. Win 3.x installation files)
> * mscompress, which compresses files using LZ77
> compression algorithm.
> Output files can be decompressed using Microsoft
> expand.exe or msexpand(1).
>
> Homepage
>
> ftp://ftp.penguin.cz/pub/users/mhi/mscompress
>
>
> > I thought it was, well sort of anyway.
> > What exactly is mscompress/msexpand supposed to
> do?
> >
> > I want to extract some icons from an
> MSN_Messenger.exe
> >
> > binary package. Is there no way to do that?
>
> no, you don't extract icons from an EXE. try google:
> icons msn messenger
> I got this site ( for one):
>
> http://www.msnicon.com/
>
> it has 3,000 icons
> >
> > Sorry if I have misunderstood.
>
> no need to be sorry, we are all learning here!
>
>
> --
> Paul Cartwright
> Registered Linux user # 367800
> Registered Ubuntu User #12459
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Thanks Paul for the . I sort of wanted to look
inside of an exe,
as I am rather curious about such things. I thought
maybe I could
find some nice icons while in there.

Thanks for the link to the site as well. It should
more than satisfy
may iconic (?) needs.

I can't seem to find very much info about mscompress,
and what
it does or how to use it. That seems strange to me.
I have searched quite a bit, but remain in the dark
more or less
about it.
The link you provided to the mscompress homepage is
requiring
login. I tried as "guest", but it was no go.
I found this listed as homepage of mscompress from
freshmeat.net:

http://martin.hinner.info/mscompress/

But, there is little info of there either.
Mysterious.

Thanks again.
Regards.

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>
> --- Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu January 24 2008, Angus Auld wrote:
>> > Thanks for your reply Paul. So, if I understand, a
>> > windows binary
>> > installation package .exe isn't like a nix binary
>> like
>> > .deb or .rpm?
>>
>> not exactly. look for the homepage, maybe it
>> explains better:
>>
>> MsCompress for Windows
>>
>> MsCompress: compress data using LZ77 algorithm
>> Version
>>
>> 0.3
>> Description
>>
>> MsCompress is a Microsoft "compress.exe/expand.exe"
>> compatible (de)compressor.
>> This package contains two programs:
>>
>> * msexpand, which decompresses files compressed
>> by Microsoft compress.exe
>> utility (e.g. Win 3.x installation files)
>> * mscompress, which compresses files using LZ77
>> compression algorithm.
>> Output files can be decompressed using Microsoft
>> expand.exe or msexpand(1).
>>
>> Homepage
>>
>> ftp://ftp.penguin.cz/pub/users/mhi/mscompress
>>
>>
>> > I thought it was, well sort of anyway.
>> > What exactly is mscompress/msexpand supposed to
>> do?
>> >
>> > I want to extract some icons from an
>> MSN_Messenger.exe
>> >
>> > binary package. Is there no way to do that?
>>
>> no, you don't extract icons from an EXE. try google:
>> icons msn messenger
>> I got this site ( for one):
>>
>> http://www.msnicon.com/
>>
>> it has 3,000 icons
>> >
>> > Sorry if I have misunderstood.
>>
>> no need to be sorry, we are all learning here!
>>
>>
>> --
>> Paul Cartwright
>> Registered Linux user # 367800
>> Registered Ubuntu User #12459
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> Thanks Paul for the . I sort of wanted to look
> inside of an exe,
> as I am rather curious about such things. I thought
> maybe I could
> find some nice icons while in there.
>
> Thanks for the link to the site as well. It should
> more than satisfy
> may iconic (?) needs.
>
> I can't seem to find very much info about mscompress,
> and what
> it does or how to use it. That seems strange to me.
> I have searched quite a bit, but remain in the dark
> more or less
> about it.
> The link you provided to the mscompress homepage is
> requiring
> login. I tried as "guest", but it was no go.
> I found this listed as homepage of mscompress from
> freshmeat.net:
>
> http://martin.hinner.info/mscompress/
>
> But, there is little info of there either.
> Mysterious.
>
> Thanks again.
> Regards.
>
> -- Angus
>
> ######Linux Laptop powered by Debian Linux######
> ###########Reg. Linux User #278931###########
Angus
To find out how the mscompress works google LZ77 or merely Lempel-Ziv
compression (this is the Lempel-Ziv compression algorithm-it has been used
in multiple compression schemes since it is in the public domain)
Larry
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