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From: FARRINGTON, RYAN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]damn =) ah well... Thanks I was doing that anyway but I wanted to find a way to do it totally in PERL and not have to rely on a third-party executable
How ambitious are you feeling? M$ seems to be keeping the wraps on the DIAMONDAPI calls, but you can find the C header files here: http://mateusz.free.fr/mscab/. Look at FCI.h (File Compression Interface) inside MsCab061-Src.cab. You may be able to work out the Win32::API calls. I haven't played with this yet, and am not sure if it is legally redistributable. Is there any special reason for using CAB over another format?
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From: Jan Dubois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 12:17 PM
To: Bullock, Howard A.
Cc: 'FARRINGTON, RYAN'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Perl List
Subject: Re: .CAB?
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:23:49 -0500, "Bullock, Howard A."
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>I thought I had seen a Win32::Cabinet module, but can not seem to find it on
>ActiveState's site or at CPAN.org.It is part of the Perl Dev Kit. But it won't help you extract files from
a CAB, it only builds them.The only way to access files inside a CAB from Perl (that I know about) is
to shell out and run expand.exe to extract the file to the filesystem:| C:\>expand -?
| Microsoft (R) File Expansion Utility Version 5.00.2134.1
| Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1990-1999. All rights reserved.
|
| Expands one or more compressed files.
|
| EXPAND [-r] Source Destination
| EXPAND -r Source [Destination]
| EXPAND -D Source.cab [-F:Files]
| EXPAND Source.cab -F:Files Destination
|
| -r Rename expanded files.
| -D Display list of files in source.
| Source Source file specification. Wildcards may be used.
| -F:Files Name of files to expand from a .CAB.
| Destination Destination file | path specification.
| Destination may be a directory.
| If Source is multiple files and -r is not specified,
| Destination must be a directory.Cheers,
-Jan
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