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Camarade_Tux, on Sep 27 2006, 06:51 AM, said:

Nice to know. Thanks.
However, is AHK using AutoIt's old compiler ??

I just had a look at AHK 1.40 installer and it is using the early v3.0...build of the AutoIt3 Aut2Exe compiler which is a few years old.

[nitro322]

I just updated Universal Extractor to version 1.3.1. This is primarily a bugfix release for version 1.3, focusing on improved 7-zip support, improved "default" checks for unknown .exe files, and Windows 9x compatability. I also made a few other small tweaks and fixes. As usual, full details can be found in the ChangeLog.

I updated the first post to reflect the new version.

This post has been edited by nitro322: 27 September 2006 - 09:23 PM

[ma$e]

Hi nitro322!

I found out what the problem was. To remind u about my problem see post 185.

I changed starting path of my command shell to "c:\" by introducing following keys to the registry:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor]
"AutoRun"=hex(2):43,44,20,2f,44,20,25,43,4d,44,41,55,54,4f,52,55,4e,50,41,54,48,\
  25,00

(The hex value means: "CD /D %CMDAUTORUNPATH%"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment]
"CMDAUTORUNPATH"="c:\\"

If I switch it back tzo the default option everything is all right again.

Perhaps u can solve this PRoblem. Thanks for the new release!!!

[nitro322]

ma$e, on Sep 28 2006, 01:38 AM, said:

I found out what the problem was. To remind u about my problem see post 185.

Great! I'm glad you figured this out. Now that you mention it, I remember having trouble with this myself quite a while back. I ended up deleting the AutoRun value and just creating a hotkey shortcut to cmd.exe instead that drops me into the correct directory. It's been so long ago, though, that I'd completely forgotten about it.

I can pretty easily fix this in future versions. The /d option for cmd.exe will disable the AutoRun value, which should solve the problem.

Thanks for letting me know about this.

[Drugwash]

First of all, thank you for attempting to fix Win9x issues. Using build 1.3.1, I managed to unpack FlashGet v1.73 and Yahoo! Messenger 8 (both Wise Installer) by using option 3 (the /x switch). However, extraction of SlimBrowser 4.08.105 NSIS package failed for some reason and the log is again 2 bytes long (0D 0A). Same thing happened with the Uniextract 1.3.1 package itself (Zip SFX), Win32 OpenSSL 0.9.8c (Zip SFX), MDGx's 98SE2ME package (Inno Setup) and some MS SFX Cabinet files also from MDGx's site.
An improvement might be the option to remember (at least) last source folder when browsing for a package to extract, instead of always opening the bin folder where the Uniextract exe is. As an example, I use FlashGet to always download my files in E:\Downloads and that's where all source packages are, so it would spare a few mouse clicks having it always open the same folder after I used it once.
One tiny problem that was there probably since the beginning is that the dropdown lists in the initial dialog don't show anything but a fine horizontal line when expanded. That is another known Win9x issue that happens in other applications too. Unfortunately, the exe cannot be reshacked as it is UPXed, so - although it's not that big of a problem as it can be worked around by using arrow keys to navigate through previous paths - it might be the last minor detail for you to fix, when and if possible.
However, all these apart, I really appreciate the effort and there's clearly an improvement given that Wise Installer unpacking works. If/when you get some time, I'm sure you'll try to fix the remaining issues too. Thank you very much for all the work done so far!

[Ralin]

site is down, cant download it
edit:
can someone upload is elsewhere?

This post has been edited by Ralin: 30 September 2006 - 07:31 AM

[nitro322]

Ralin, on Sep 30 2006, 07:24 AM, said:

site is down, cant download it

Both the c1pher.com download site and the legroom.net main site are currently up. I rebooted the legroom.net server around 2:00am this morning for a kernel upgrade, but it was only down for a few minutes. c1pher.com runs on a managed hosting provider, and I have not received any report of downtime on this server.

Can you please check again? If you're still having problems with either site, please let me know.

This post has been edited by nitro322: 30 September 2006 - 06:08 PM

[the_guy]

I had problems this morning, but this afternoon all was well.

the_guy

[nitro322]

Drugwash, on Sep 28 2006, 06:07 PM, said:

First of all, thank you for attempting to fix Win9x issues.

I'll look into the other issues you reported when I get a chance.

Drugwash, on Sep 28 2006, 06:07 PM, said:

An improvement might be the option to remember (at least) last source folder when browsing for a package to extract, instead of always opening the bin folder where the Uniextract exe is.

It actually does remember the last folder under NT. I tested and verified that it behaves as you say under 9x, though. I don't know how easy this would be to workaround without digging through the code, but it may just be a limitation of Windows 9x.

Drugwash, on Sep 28 2006, 06:07 PM, said:

One tiny problem that was there probably since the beginning is that the dropdown lists in the initial dialog don't show anything but a fine horizontal line when expanded.

Hmm... I just verified this as well. I've actually never noticed this before, but according to the AutoIt docs is seems to be another 9x limitation:

Under Windows XP/2003 Windows will ajust the size of the opened combo. On other Windows versions you must define this size with the "height" parameter if the default value is not BIG enough to contain at least one line.

Again, I'll take a look at this when I get a chance and see if I can work around it without wasting too much time.

Thanks for the bug reports.

[Clippit]

HOHO~~My CHS 1.3.1 version has been completed~~
See :http://zlthooray.googlepages.com/universalextractorchinesehelp%3Aintroduction

[nitro322]

Clippit, on Oct 5 2006, 10:19 PM, said:

HOHO~~My CHS 1.3.1 version has been completed~~

Excellent! I've posted a link to it from my website. Thanks, Clippit.

[Camarade_Tux]

I've downloaded some (read tens) archives from the internet and was extracting them with 7-zip (because of details view). Some could not be extracted so I tried with UE and it told me there was an error and telling me to look at c:\uniextract.txt

First, why in c:\ ?
UE is on e:\ here. imho this could be corrected.

Then, why not a button that would let you open the log file directly instead of letting the user browse by himself ?


Thanks.

[nitro322]

Camarade_Tux, on Oct 8 2006, 11:08 AM, said:

First, why in c:\ ?
UE is on e:\ here. imho this could be corrected.

Please see post 259 for an answer to this question.

Camarade_Tux, on Oct 8 2006, 11:08 AM, said:

Then, why not a button that would let you open the log file directly instead of letting the user browse by himself?

That's not a bad idea - I'll add that to my list of options to explore for the next version.

[Clippit]

nitro322, some chinese users say that the file UniExtract.exe is a virus !!
The users *all* use Rising Antivirus software (瑞星杀毒软件, http://www.rising-global.com/) that is made in China.
The virus's name is : Worm.Agent.fl
just is 1.3.1, 1.2.1 version is not

I use NOD32 and it doesn't give me any warnings
I think Rising Antivirus software took a mistake
Do you think so?

[p.i.s.a.]

Hi! Very nice software, but I tried to extract files from installers made from slysoft products and Universal Extractor fails the extraction.
I don't know anything about the method of creation of these installers. I hope you should add support for these file types. I made this try, because I'd like to create a portable stand-alone version of anydvd and clonedvd and use them with a pendrive on a pc where I don't have administration rights.

Thank you and sorry for my bad english!

[nitro322]

Clippit, on Oct 15 2006, 08:57 AM, said:

I think Rising Antivirus software took a mistake
Do you think so?

Yeah, this is a false positive. Unfortunately, this seems to be a rather common thing, as AV vendors apparently don't understand that UPX is not used only by virus writers. You can refer back to posts 123-150 or so of this thread for more details about this.

p.i.s.a., on Oct 15 2006, 06:08 PM, said:

Hi! Very nice software, but I tried to extract files from installers made from slysoft products and Universal Extractor fails the extraction.

No guarantees, but I'll be happy to take a look at it. Can you please post a direct download link?

[Surfer]

Hello nitro322
Some ideas about unpacking
SIS - symbian packages (http://up-file.com/d...s2-s60.sis.html)
Gentee - I upload it to http://up-file.com/d...trip-I.exe.html
SZZD files - http://up-file.com/d...up.dat.rar.html

I don't know about utilites for unpacking it.

[p.i.s.a.]

nitro322, on Oct 16 2006, 08:26 AM, said:

p.i.s.a., on Oct 15 2006, 06:08 PM, said:

Hi! Very nice software, but I tried to extract files from installers made from slysoft products and Universal Extractor fails the extraction.

No guarantees, but I'll be happy to take a look at it. Can you please post a direct download link?

Sure, here they are:
Slysoft AnyDVD: h**p://static.slysoft.com/SetupAnyDVD.exe
Slysoft CloneDVD: h**p://static.slysoft.com/SetupCloneDVD.exe

Thanks a lot for the rapid answer and for the time you'll dedicate to my problem!

[nitro322]

Surfer, on Oct 16 2006, 10:31 AM, said:

Some ideas about unpacking
SIS - symbian packages

I found a couple programs that can supposedly do this, but one requires perl, and the other require python. I did find one other Windows GUI program that is supposed to be capable of this, but I didn't download it because it requires registration, which also means it likely isn't freely redistributable.

Surfer, on Oct 16 2006, 10:31 AM, said:

Gentee Installer

This is the first time I'd ever heard of this. Unfortunately, though, I was unable to figure out any way to extract the files.

Surfer, on Oct 16 2006, 10:31 AM, said:

SZZD files

This is also a new one for me. I've been able to determine that it's compressed using the same algorithm used by Microsoft's compress.exe and expand.exe (I forget the name, but it's common old format), so I can decompress the file, but I still can't figure out any way to extract the files out of the archive. I found a couple programs for Linux and Amiga that can do it, and a couple shareware programs for Windows, but nothing free.

p.i.s.a., on Oct 16 2006, 04:21 PM, said:

Sure, here they are:
Slysoft AnyDVD: h**p://static.slysoft.com/SetupAnyDVD.exe

This is an old version of NSIS (Nullsoft installer) that is not supported. There is no technical way to extract files from these installers, as far as I'm aware.

This post has been edited by nitro322: 19 October 2006 - 05:19 PM