On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 09:45:37 -0400, Roger Turk wrote:
> 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.
Well... in win95 extract.exe can be found in: Win95\extract.exe.
I tried extract.exe on several .cab files and all extracted fine ( like
ZIP or ARJ).
But the three .cab files in the DOSDRIVER directory on the soundblaster
CD all failed with: "error: data1.cab is not a cabinet file".
So I still do not have a dosdriver that can handel PCI-slots for the
soundblaster in DOS.
The soundblaster is ok in win95 even for DOS if I use the DOS-box... but
than the installation is already done by windows and not directly in
DOS.
Thanks Roger, Bastiaan
> 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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