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open an .exe file on a mac without bink
Name: Alex Date: February 6, 2002 at 18:37:24 Pacific
Comment:
A friend emailed a video in an .exe file. I downloaded the bink player so that it could open the .exe file on my mac. However, the file is not bink type. Is there anyway I can open the .exe file without bink player?
Name: iconoclast Date: February 6, 2002 at 21:32:34 Pacific
Reply:
bink? the only way to open an .exe (windows executable code) is to use a pc environment on your mac, ie, Virtual pc from www.connectix.com or softwindows from i forget where. A simpler alternative is to have him send this file not as a windows app, but as an actual video, .mov, .avi, .mpeg, even an .asf which u could play using various proggies in ur native mac environment
Summary: MacLink won't help. An .exe file (excutable program) is PC ONLY. You can however, run it on a Mac using a PC emulator like VirtualPC. http://www.connectix.com/products/vpc.ht ml ...
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Summary: Yes, you can up-zip .exe files on a mac, Stuffit Expander 5.5 should do the job.... but I have no clue why would want to... you can't use it on a Macintosh!! You need VPC.. Or just get IBM.......
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