Orca <http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255905> is the "official" tool, but I haven't used it in ages and I found it a bit painful.
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Ian Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > Bing! New > version<http://blog.scott.willeke.com/2010/12/lessmsi-v108-is-now-available.html>, > 2010. But I’d like to know of other tools available. **** > > ** ** > ------------------------------ > > **Ian Thomas** > Victoria Park, ****Western Australia******** > ------------------------------ > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Ian Thomas > *Sent:* Friday, October 14, 2011 4:33 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Opening .MSI databases**** > > ** ** > > I need to open an .MSI data package (installable file) to extract just the > .CHM (Help) file. Does anyone know a simple utility? **** > > In the past, I used “Les Mis” – actually, *lessmsierables* written by > Scott Willeke, but the last version he produced was 2005-11-10 and although > it has C# source code, I suspect the package structure might have changed > and I know (from trying it just now) it is not UAC-aware. I’d rather not > change his code in an attempt to improve it, if there is something else. * > *** > > (I don’t want to install WiX, either). **** > ------------------------------ > > **Ian Thomas** > Victoria Park, ****Western Australia******** >
