EnderPax,

Um, if it's really a WinZip self-extracting ZIP file, why not use system() to let it uncompress itself? For example:

#!/usr/bin/perl
my $sfxfile = "samples.exe";
system( "$sfxfile" ) == 0
   or die "Can't unzip $sfxfile";
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This is pretty much the same code found in perlfunc:system and worked on my system (Win98) with an sfx created with WinZIP 7, SP1.

--f