The wines for you to drink while angrily trying to get a stupid exe you only need once to work.
I made SO many self-extracting archives back in the day. My friends just couldn't be bothered to use 7zip.
I still to this day don't know how it worked, but I remember back when I would pirate games and often there would be like 20 different compressed archives, but somehow you only need to decompress one of them and the game would install. Was like magic.
Multipart archives still exist. They're now used for file sharing websites that have a maximum file size. Before that they were for unreliable p2p networks, so you didn't lose the parts you'd already downloaded when your peer goes offline. Originally it was to fit something big on multiple cd-roms or floppies.
Opening somthing.rar also reads the data in somthing.r01 through somthing.r15 etc
Opening somthing.rar also reads the data in somthing.r01 through somthing.r15 etc
Oh so it's just kinda a part of the rar specification then? How did that work on CDs or floppies, if presumably you'd have had to swap out to insert the next part?
Yes, it asks for the next part if it's not in the same folder with the same name, doesn't really make a difference what it's stored on. Multipart zip and tar also exist.
Most compression programs offer a way to separate your thing in multiple parts, I know 7zip and Peazip do.
I've recently had to properly rename the latter part of a multipart zip because the source I got it from probably just renamed the parts it stole from elsewhere, which broke the whole "extract part 1, everything else comes along!"
Someone once said that using limewire was like having unprotected sex with the internet and that person was right.
Shout out to that time when I was like 11 and tried to download a lil bow wow song and my sister and I were greeted with a full screen p-in-v POV amateur porn on the family computer.
Literally the first thing I do on every new computer I've used in the last 20 years or so is change the setting to show all file extensions. It's always been scummy of Microsoft to hide those details and can only be justified at all by the notion that they want to make people dependent on their icons...which is a decent business justification and a horrible moral justification.
You can do set it up to detect a windows exe format and launch it in wine without any extra intervention.
Make sure to chown it to root first with that suid bit to make sure it can get the library and hardware access that needs every time.
Fun thing, the last time I used LimeWire was actually in Linux. So obviously I was immediately highly suspicious about .exe results. (Wouldn't even have been able to run them anyway. Wine was far less functional back then.)