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- Short: Cabinet (CAB) xadmaster client
- Author: Kyzer/CSG <kyzer@4u.net> et al
- Uploader: Kyzer/CSG <kyzer@4u.net>
- Type: dev/src
- Requires: util/arc/xadmaster.lha
-
- --- About this archive ---
-
- This archive contains 68000, 68020 and 68040 optimised versions of the
- CAB client for Dirk Stoecker's XAD system - util/arc/xadmaster000.lha -
- and also includes the source code to this client.
-
- To install, unpack this archive somewhere and double click on the Install
- icon. The appropriate version of the client will automatically be
- installed.
-
- --- License ---
-
- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
- under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
- Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
- any later version.
-
- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
- ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
- FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for
- more details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
- with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675
- Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
-
- --- About the client ---
-
- This client lets XAD view and extract Microsoft Cabinet (.cab) files, and
- self-extracting executable forms of cabinets (.exe). If you suspect that an
- executable contains a cabinet file in it, but cannot open the executable in
- XAD, then use the "exe2arc" command provided with XAD to scan for one.
-
- The cabinet format, and MSZIP/LZX compression formats are described in the
- documents CABFMT.DOC, LZXFMT.DOC and MSZIPFMT.DOC in the CAB SDK, which is
- (C) 1997 Microsoft Corporation. MSZIP is a modification of the inflate and
- deflate methods created by Phil Katz. LZX was created by Johnathan Forbes
- and Tomi Poutanen. Quantum is (C) 1994 Cinematronics, written by David
- Stafford and licensed to Microsoft. The MSZIP part of this client was
- written for me by Dirk Stoecker, who based it on code from InfoZip's free
- UnZip utility. The Quantum part of this client was written for me by
- Matthew Russotto, who also reverse-engineered the Microsoft cabinet library
- and the original Quantum compressor.
-
- The CAB format has four known compression formats - NONE, MSZIP, QUANTUM
- and LZX. All are supported by the client.
-