[solved] Calling on help from Vbox/XP experimenters

[wedgetail]

Edit:

To save the unwary, I have removed this topic as further work has indicated it will be a dead end at this stage. 

[pags]

4.. I do not have the CD as I do not have the printer but I downloaded the 'driver' from hp site easily enough but found that is not just a compressed file, seems to be an application.  I have been unable to fish out the drivers.  For anybody with a fast Internet connection this would be faster to obtain the package rather than find the original CD..

Hive you looked into file-roller in Synaptic?

An archive manager for GNOME
File Roller is an archive manager for the GNOME environment.  This means that
you can : create and modify archives; view the content of an archive; view a
file contained in the archive; extract files from the archive.
File Roller is only a front-end (a graphical interface) to archiving programs
like tar and zip. The supported file types are :
    * Tar archives uncompressed (.tar) or compressed with
          * gzip (.tar.gz , .tgz)
          * bzip (.tar.bz , .tbz)
          * bzip2 (.tar.bz2 , .tbz2)
          * compress (.tar.Z , .taz)
          * lzop (.tar.lzo , .tzo)
          * lzma (.tar.lzma , .tlz)
    * Zip archives (.zip)
    * Jar archives (.jar , .ear , .war)
    * Lha archives (.lzh)
    * Rar archives (.rar)
    * Single files compressed with gzip, bzip, bzip2, compress, lzop, lzma

I clicked an .exe file today (before I installed Wine), and it opened, with a number of files listed...I presume it can read the files archived in the .exe

Just a guess...can't hurt!

[wedgetail]

pags
Good suggestion, though since Ark did not do too well I was a bit reluctant, when I got back on this test-system I have install the file-roller and checked out a couple of other things as well.

Edit:
Initially I missed your question mark about the exe file, there is a very simple answer, some zip files are marked exe, they are so called self extracting so by applying file-roller it just sees a zip file, small fry for the roller. 

Funny file-roller does sort of open the file but only 4 minor files of no recognition at all. I am starting to wonder if the download via the net is sufficient.