Anyone know how to produce a win16 pkzip self-extractor?

[Dan Kegel]

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

[Kevin Koltzau]

On Monday 24 December 2007 12:13:10 pm Dan Kegel wrote:
> To look into
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3620
> I wanted to create a 16 bit self-extracting archive.
>
> I also tried the DOS version, and that just hung (grumble).

pkzip 2.5 for dos works fine under dosbox

[Dan Kegel]

On Dec 24, 2007 10:36 AM, Kevin Koltzau <kevin(a)plop.org> wrote:
> > I also tried the DOS version, and that just hung (grumble).
>
> pkzip 2.5 for dos works fine under dosbox

I am sick and tired of us wimping out and pointing people
to dosbox.  Wine should be able to run DOS apps.
See http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9178 for
details.  Mikolaj even provided a patch that gets it working.
IMHO this needs fixing for wine 1.0.
- Dan

[Zac Brown]

Dan Kegel wrote:
> On Dec 24, 2007 10:36 AM, Kevin Koltzau <kevin(a)plop.org> wrote:
> > > I also tried the DOS version, and that just hung (grumble).
> > > pkzip 2.5 for dos works fine under dosbox
>
> I am sick and tired of us wimping out and pointing people
> to dosbox.  Wine should be able to run DOS apps.
> See http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9178 for
> details.  Mikolaj even provided a patch that gets it working.
> IMHO this needs fixing for wine 1.0.
> - Dan

I agree. One way or another it needs to be done.

[James McKenzie]

Dan Kegel wrote:
> I am sick and tired of us wimping out and pointing people
> to dosbox.  Wine should be able to run DOS apps.
> See http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9178 for
> details.  Mikolaj even provided a patch that gets it working.
> IMHO this needs fixing for wine 1.0.
> - Dan

Dan:

+1 for adding this to 1.0

James

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

Quoting Dan Kegel <dank(a)kegel.com>:

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)