[SLUG] Another installation question

[Stephen]

Jonathan Worthington wrote:

> <john at johnallsopp.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I want to download the Java development kit which is supplied as a
>> file la-de-da-rpm.bin.
>>
>> How do I install that?
>>
>> It's an rpm, but it's a bin. What's that?
>>
> Maybe a binary?  Try executing it (make sure it has the execute bit 
> set), e.g.
>
> ./la-de-da-rpm.bin

The only place I've come across bin files are as images of cds etc - 
c.f. iso images.

Generally they come with a 'cue' file too... but that's unlikely, unless 
it's a few hundred meg ;)