1 cabextract 0.6 - a program to extract Microsoft Cabinet files.
2 (C) 2000-2002 Stuart Caie <kyzer@4u.net>
3 This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
5 Cabinet (.CAB) files are a form of archive, which Microsoft use to
6 distribute their software, and things like Windows Font Packs. The
7 cabextract program simply unpacks such files.
9 For more information, see http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/cabextract.php3
10 or run the command 'cabextract --help'.
14 Extracting files from a cabinet file:
15 $ cabextract wibble.cab
17 Extracting files from an executable which contains a cabinet file:
18 $ cabextract wibble.exe
19 [cabextract will automatically search executables for embedded cabinets]
21 Extracting files from a set of cabinet files; wib01.cab, wib02.cab, ...:
22 $ cabextract wib01.cab
23 [cabextract will automatically get the names of the other files]
25 Extracting files to a directory of your choice (in this case, 'boogie'):
26 $ cabextract -d boogie wibble.cab
27 [cabextract will create the directory if it does not already exist]
29 Listing files from a cabinet file:
30 $ cabextract -l wibble.cab
32 Stuart Caie <kyzer@4u.net>, 12 August 2002.