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Re: .exe files on a Mac

From	philo <philo@privacy.net>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: .exe files on a Mac
Date	2014-01-20 07:23 -0600
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 01/19/2014 06:55 PM, Alan Browne wrote:
>

<snip>
>
> To be accurate, it used to be common (in PC land) for "self extracting"
> distributions to be a .exe file which also contained the "media" or
> other content as well.  That could be anything including other programs
> (.exe), audio, pdf's, video, etc.; compressed/encrypted or not.
>
> On a Mac, running "the Unarchiver" will often, safely, extract the media
> and the .exe. as well.  But the exe is no threat on a Mac as the OS
> doesn't know what to make of it.
>
>

That is absolutely correct. In windows it is very common for a device 
driver to be packaged in the form of a self-extracting executable.

OTOH: Though of course any type of file could be contained within 
such...I don't know of any situations where I've ever come across it 
with a media file.

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.exe files on a Mac psr2001 <psr2001@hotmail.com> - 2014-01-19 12:36 -0500
  Re: .exe files on a Mac Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-01-19 10:39 -0700
    Re: .exe files on a Mac philo  <philo@privacy.net> - 2014-01-19 14:30 -0600
    Re: .exe files on a Mac PhillipJones <pjonescet@comcast.net> - 2014-01-19 17:45 -0500
  Re: .exe files on a Mac Beli <baiheli.pip@xs4all.nl> - 2014-01-19 18:40 +0100
  Re: .exe files on a Mac Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-01-19 13:15 -0500
  Re: .exe files on a Mac nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-19 15:47 -0500
    Re: .exe files on a Mac dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-01-20 09:07 +1100
      Re: .exe files on a Mac nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-19 17:43 -0500
        Re: .exe files on a Mac dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-01-20 11:45 +1100
          Re: .exe files on a Mac Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-01-19 19:55 -0500
            Re: .exe files on a Mac dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-01-20 13:21 +1100
            Re: .exe files on a Mac philo  <philo@privacy.net> - 2014-01-20 07:23 -0600
              Re: .exe files on a Mac nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-20 10:45 -0500
                Re: .exe files on a Mac philo  <philo@privacy.net> - 2014-01-20 11:49 -0600
                Re: .exe files on a Mac nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-20 13:35 -0500
                Re: .exe files on a Mac John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2014-01-24 03:27 +0000
                Re: .exe files on a Mac John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2014-01-24 03:24 +0000
              Re: .exe files on a Mac John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2014-01-24 03:19 +0000
                Re: .exe files on a Mac PhillipJones <pjonescet@comcast.net> - 2014-01-24 15:38 -0500
            Re: .exe files on a Mac PhillipJones <pjonescet@comcast.net> - 2014-01-20 16:56 -0500
              Re: .exe files on a Mac John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2014-01-24 03:39 +0000
                Re: .exe files on a Mac Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2014-02-04 23:37 -0500
            Re: .exe files on a Mac super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> - 2014-01-22 22:32 -0600
              Re: .exe files on a Mac Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-01-22 21:41 -0800
              Re: .exe files on a Mac John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2014-01-24 03:48 +0000
            Re: .exe files on a Mac Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-01-27 17:17 +0100
    Re: .exe files on a Mac Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-01-19 19:19 -0500

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