Reading exe files

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gsulos

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I am new to this. This is my first entry into a forum. I am trying to deal with a large company for materials orders. They supply their catalogues as exe files, not PDF files. How can I open these files? Using text editor, they appear as gibberish.
 
gsulos said:
... I am trying to deal with a large company for materials orders. They supply their catalogues as exe files, .... How can I open these files? ...
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Your .exe files are self-extracting archives for Windows. If they are self-extracting .zip archives, then Stuffit Expander and other decompression utilities on the Mac can handle them. You may try to decompress the file using the Finder's built-in unzipping utility, but I have no idea if it will work.
 
gsulos said:
There is no .zip or any other compression noted. It is just a straight .exe file.
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Right. Some .exe files are actually compressed ZIP files that can be uncompressed on systems that do not have any kind of zip uncompression software installed -- hence, them being called "self-extracting archives."

Try dragging-and-dropping the .exe files on StuffIt Expander (available for free from stuffit.com).

If that doesn't work, then your best bet would be to secure some time on a Windows machine to find out what those files are. A "Windows machine" can be just about anything that runs Windows -- a separate computer, a virtualized machine, WINE, Crossover, etc.
 
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