[missing-sync-pocketpc-talk] Dead Horse: CAB file extraction

[Jim Weller]

75% of distro exe's are just self extracting exe's (read lz 
compressed). The one's that aren't are installshield/wise installers 
that use signed compression anyway (there cab files are not what your 
thinking). What that means is that most of the exe's will just unzip 
with StuffitExpander. The rest will *always* have to be run on a PC.  
Try opening w/ stuffit.

HTH,
Jim Weller

On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 08:11  AM, James Grubic wrote:

> Hate to bring up this subject again, but I would like to echo my 
> support for a CAB file extraction utility to be used under Missing 
> Sync for PocketPC.
>
> I started from scratch on my Dell Axim and found that 99.99% of the 
> software I wanted to put on the device were PC executables. I know 
> that a few vendors offer CAB files in .zip format, but in my case I 
> found none that were in this format.
>
> So, there I was again in Virtual PC doing all this stuff. I am 
> proficient with multiple flavors of Windows but I really don't like to 
> use it if I can avoid it somehow.
>
> In past discussions, MarkSpace has said that CAB file extraction would 
> not be 100% reliable. That's ok! If I can get a 50-80% rate I would be 
> happy.
>
> Another low-priority utility would be a theme creator...I know the 
> image sizes of the .TSK format but I would like to make them on my Mac 
> and transfer them over via Missing Sync.
>
>
>
> James
>
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