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Old 04-13-2004, 12:02 PM   #1
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Question the archives "exe" work ??

the archives "exe" work or what??
 
Old 04-13-2004, 12:21 PM   #2
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What do you mean?
 
Old 04-13-2004, 12:36 PM   #3
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i want to know if i can rum programas like in windows using .exe files to install programs

do you know?
 
Old 04-13-2004, 12:46 PM   #4
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Use Wine to run Windows programs:
www.winehq.org

If you are having problems with InstallShield installers, you can use a program called 'i6comp' to get the files inside.
 
Old 04-13-2004, 01:10 PM   #5
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no, you can't run exe files. or rather you can't without a windows compat liayer like wine...
 
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...or you can use win4lin which works great also.
 
  


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