Description

cabextract is Free Software for extracting Microsoft cabinet files, also called .CAB files, on UNIX or UNIX-like systems. cabextract is distributed under the GPL license. It is based on the portable LGPL libmspack library. cabextract supports all special features and all compression formats of Microsoft cabinet files.
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Microsoft cabinets vs InstallShield cabinets

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Microsoft cabinet files are used by Microsoft and others to distribute all kinds of data and software: core Web fonts, Longhorn videos, operating system updates and video codecs, to give some examples. Microsoft cabinets are also used as the installation format for Windows CE software.