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Offline ramson

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« on: March 11, 2003, 11:04:56 PM »
Is there a way to extract files from a cab, edit and recompress them without affecting the size of the cab ? I tried Winiso/Winrar combo but could not add the file inside the cab once it was extracted.
 Any help would be appreciated...
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« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2003, 09:51:03 PM »
try using Winzip it can recompress or edit the .CAB files
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« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2003, 01:13:21 AM »
or Cabman or Winace
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« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2003, 01:16:03 AM »
o sorry i forgot...Winzip editing/compressing/decompressing .cab files is news to me...when did they incorprate that feature??? has it always been there??? if it has i was REALLY in the dark because i used that for almost 2 years and never saw it. Makes sense though...i just thought it could only do .zip file\'s. Nice to know this...i guess :-)
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« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2003, 04:37:51 AM »
I tried winzip, winrar and zip wrangler but I couldn\'t put the file back inside the cab without getting an error that I can\'t do that because it\'s not zip or rar archive...and when I was able to recompress the file using zip wrangler it changed the size of the cab...so I am looking for a program that would do that without changing the size..
Thanx for te suggestion..
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« Reply #5 on: March 14, 2003, 04:25:09 PM »
Shariq..I just tried cabman and it\'s the closest I ever came to keeping the original cab size...insteadof 1320kb I got 1324kb with max compression...do you know  of other programs I can try ?...
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« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2003, 01:07:13 AM »
Powerarchiver does cab files. Microsoft compatable cab also.
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« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2003, 01:42:12 PM »
I downloaded and tried powerarchiver but it didn\'t do the trick... the  (re)compressed cab  doesn\'t come  anywhere near  the original size..
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« Reply #8 on: March 17, 2003, 07:36:20 AM »
Use cabarc.exe in command line
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« Reply #9 on: March 18, 2003, 07:12:07 AM »
search on google for \"cab manager 2003\", try that it works!
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« Reply #10 on: April 16, 2003, 08:20:58 AM »
Search the web for an app called CabPack 1.4 download it and it compresses .cab files  with the (exact) same size as it was.
note: you must use winrar or winzip to uncompress the file coz this app doesn't..





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« Reply #11 on: September 02, 2005, 02:12:01 PM »
Try using Microsoft Cab SDK for developers... search it over yahoo!
it has 3 utills, comand line based... so read help /? it will do just fine.

but if it was IShield cab... that is a different story.
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