This may be of interest to people extracting MS files... > Subject: Re: Possible use of cabextract in OpenOffice.org under an LGPL > license? > Date: Friday 23 January 2004 12:59 > From: Stuart Caie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Kevin B. Hendricks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hello, > > you may want to check out the LGPL licensed libmspack. Not only is it > far better suited to integration with other projects, but it also > performs better and has less bugs than cabextract. It can be found here: > > http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/libmspack/ > > There is API documentation here: > > http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/libmspack/doc/ > > and you can check out the latest version of the code (a few minor > tweaks over the old version) with these commands: > > cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/libmspack login > cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/libmspack co > libmspack > > The CVS code is not packaged for distribution -- you'll need the latest > autoconf and automake to run "rebuild.sh", but if you want to integrate > code rather than test it out in isolation, the newer code has bug fixes > over the previous version. > > The main show-stopping problem of libmspack is that it does not yet > support MS-ZIP decompression. However, last time I checked, all the > Microsoft web-fonts were compressed with LZX, so this should not be a > problem for you. > > Let me know what you decide on. > > Regards > Stuart
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