Hi,
Windows 2000 comes with "c:\winnt\system32\makecab.exe" for creating
.cabs and then there is the "expand" mentioned below, you can download
it from TechNet. .cabs are M$ archive format. I'd be surprised if
there is an open source version (but then I haven't looked either).
Sorry, don't know (or care) about other Windows versions.
StephenC.
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To: "'Jan Dubois'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
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Subject: RE: .CAB?
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:20:53 -0600
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damn =) ah well... Thanks I was doing that anyway but I wanted to find a way
to do it totally in PERL and not have to rely on a third-party executable
-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Dubois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 12:17 PM
To: Bullock, Howard A.
Cc: 'FARRINGTON, RYAN'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Perl List
Subject: Re: .CAB?
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:23:49 -0500, "Bullock, Howard A."
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I thought I had seen a Win32::Cabinet module, but can not seem to find it
on
>ActiveState's site or at CPAN.org.
It is part of the Perl Dev Kit. But it won't help you extract files from
a CAB, it only builds them.
The only way to access files inside a CAB from Perl (that I know about) is
to shell out and run expand.exe to extract the file to the filesystem:
| C:\>expand -?
| Microsoft (R) File Expansion Utility Version 5.00.2134.1
| Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1990-1999. All rights reserved.
|
| Expands one or more compressed files.
|
| EXPAND [-r] Source Destination
| EXPAND -r Source [Destination]
| EXPAND -D Source.cab [-F:Files]
| EXPAND Source.cab -F:Files Destination
|
| -r Rename expanded files.
| -D Display list of files in source.
| Source Source file specification. Wildcards may be used.
| -F:Files Name of files to expand from a .CAB.
| Destination Destination file | path specification.
| Destination may be a directory.
| If Source is multiple files and -r is not specified,
| Destination must be a directory.
Cheers,
-Jan
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