There is super-orca http://www.pantaray.com/msi_super_orca.html
Not sure how it compares to les msi erables. AllI know is it is more super than the regular orca. Joseph On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Ian Thomas <il.tho...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > Yes, I should have mentioned that I have used WiX v2 and its tools, and > of course Orca. I found that using Orca was quite awkward. **** > > Apart from its cute name, les msi erables (latest version) if very easy to > use – latest version is nice (and actually it uses WiX DLLs). **** > ------------------------------ > > **Ian Thomas** > Victoria Park, ****Western Australia******** > ------------------------------ > > *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: > ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Joseph Clark > *Sent:* Friday, October 14, 2011 6:55 PM > *To:* ozDotNet > *Subject:* Re: Opening .MSI databases**** > > ** ** > > 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 <il.tho...@iinet.net.au> > 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:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: > ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Ian Thomas > *Sent:* Friday, October 14, 2011 4:33 PM > *To:* ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com > *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**** > > ** ** > -- w: http://jcooney.net t: @josephcooney
