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Extracting files from Microsoft's .cab format UNIX
Just the other day I needed some essential files that happened to be compressed in a .cab file. I searched on Google and found cabextract, a command line tool built for this purpose. Simply go to the cabextract home page and download the source. After the download completes (a matter of seconds), type:
 % tar xvzf cabextract-0.6
Once it's expanded, "cd" into the directory you just created and type:
 % sudo cp /usr/libexec/config.* .
Yes, there's a dot separated by a space at the end of that line. Once that's done, type:
 % ./configure
% make
% sudo make install
Last but but least, type rehashto make the command available to the current terminal session. That's it, you're done!
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Authored by: bhines on Sep 18, '02 01:53:45PM

step 2 is not needed for this package.

Anyway this looks useful, so i will put a fink package in today. 10.2 tree.



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