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volsmcfalls 03-19-2009 10:39 AM

A good .cab viewer / extractor?
 
Can someone recommend a good .cab viewer / extractor? I want to pull a few things from some .cabs. I googled and found a couple, but can anyone provide any recommendations / suggestions on which ones are good, fast, reliable, and have a relatively easy to use interface that a rookie can handle?

Thanks!

Machinehead 03-19-2009 11:01 AM

Re: A good .cab viewer / extractor?
 
Winrar will work.

volsmcfalls 03-19-2009 11:30 AM

Re: A good .cab viewer / extractor?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Machinehead (Post 782788)
Winrar will work.

Ah...I didn't realize that. Thanks! I am familiar with that program...

Machinehead 03-19-2009 12:16 PM

Re: A good .cab viewer / extractor?
 
I learned that by accident.

divi786 03-19-2009 12:29 PM

Re: A good .cab viewer / extractor?
 
7-zip (Free & opensource) can open cab files to view/extract. 7-zip can also open most of the compressed formats (including ISO!!). Info from their site

Supported formats:
  • Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
  • Unpacking only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR and Z.

rshyffer 03-19-2009 12:57 PM

Re: A good .cab viewer / extractor?
 
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The one problem I ran into with unzipping .cabs is that the file names are all obfuscated. I wrote a little program to go through the _setup.xml and rename them all to the correct name. It creates a sub directory called renamed and copies them in there. I have only tested this on a few _setup.xml files, so it is by no means comprehensive. You will probably need .NET 3.5 installed for this to run BTW.

Here is the exe and the source if you want to build/expand on it yourself:

frmariam 03-21-2009 04:04 PM

Re: A good .cab viewer / extractor?
 
Try MSCEInf. Best suited for what you want

banzaiwolfe 03-21-2009 09:51 PM

Re: A good .cab viewer / extractor?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by frmariam (Post 787844)
Try MSCEInf. Best suited for what you want

Yes, I use this also. +1


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