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- cabextract 1.2 - a program to extract Microsoft Cabinet files.
- (C) 2000-2004 Stuart Caie <kyzer@4u.net>
- This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
-
- Cabinet (.CAB) files are a form of archive, which Microsoft uses to
- distribute their software, and things like Windows Font Packs. The
- cabextract program unpacks these files.
-
- For more information, see http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/cabextract.php
- or run the command 'cabextract --help'.
-
- Microsoft cabinet files should not be confused with InstallShield cabinet
- files. InstallShield files are generally called "_sys.cab", "data1.hdr"
- "data1.cab", "data2.cab" and so on, and are found in the same directory as
- "setup.exe". They begin with the magic characters "ISc(" rather than
- "MSCF". cabextract will print the message "This is probably an
- InstallShield file." when it finds such a file. The file "doc/magic" in
- the cabextract source archive includes additional file-identification
- rules for the UNIX file(1) command, which distinguishes between Microsoft
- and InstallShield cabinet files.
-
- Example usage:
-
- Extracting files from a cabinet file:
- $ cabextract wibble.cab
-
- Extracting files from an executable which contains a cabinet file:
- $ cabextract wibble.exe
- [cabextract will automatically search executables for embedded cabinets]
-
- Extracting files from a set of cabinet files; wib01.cab, wib02.cab, ...:
- $ cabextract wib01.cab
- [cabextract will automatically get the names of the other files]
-
- Extracting files to a directory of your choice (in this case, 'boogie'):
- $ cabextract -d boogie wibble.cab
- [cabextract will create the directory if it does not already exist]
-
- Listing files from a cabinet file:
- $ cabextract -l wibble.cab
-
- Testing the integrity of a cabinet file, without extracting it:
- $ cabextract -t wibble.cab
-
- Stuart Caie <kyzer@4u.net>, 2006-03-01.
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