Bastiaan,
I found both EXT.EXE and EXTRACT.EXE on the W98 CD in the OLDMSDOS
directory. Apparently EXT.EXE calls EXTRACT.EXE as when I used EXT.EXE
alone, I got the message that it required EXTRACT.EXE to be in the same
directory.
I did not delve into it too deeply, nor did I decompress any .CAB files, nor
did I read carefully the information on extracting .CAB files that I found on
the M$ web site.
Hope this all helps. Maybe with the Labor Day holiday weekend (first Monday
in September) coming up, I will look at this a little bit more.
BTW, if you still can't find the files, I can send them to you.
HTH
Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona USA
Bastiaan Edelman wrote:
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On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 23:27:00 -0400, Roger Turk wrote:
> Bastiaan,
> Your dilemma got me curious, so I tried to extract a .cab file using
> expand.exe and got an error message that the file was already extracted. I
> then did a search on file extensions on the web and found that .cab files
are
> compressed M$ files. Since there *must* be a way to uncompress them, I did
> another search and found:
> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q129/6/05.asp
> which says that the file really used to extract .cab files is EXT.EXE.
> Hope this *really* helps.
> Roger Turk
> Tucson, Arizona
Hi Roger,
this is becomming realy intriguing since there is no EXT.exe on
the win95 CD nor on the soundblaster CD...
Regards Bastiaan
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