I need to create a.cab file for the folder & files of my application. When I use the 'Compress' option, the files are compressed to a zip file. How to create.cab file or single setup.exe? Hi, I am creating a installer for a web based application using InstallShield 12.0 Premier & Professional. I need to create a.cab file for the folder. How to open an InstallShield Data.cab file. Posted on July 24, 2010 by Dale Some program installations use InstallShield, and the program files are compressed into Data.cab files.
Some program installations use InstallShield, and the program files are compressed into Data.cab files. But InstallShield decided to be cute, and use their own propriety format with older versions of the Data.cab file. They could have used a standard compression algorithm like.ZIP, but did not. My guess is that they didn’t want people fiddling with the raw files.
That’s a bummer for those of us who need to get at the files, such as Application Packagers. I discussed this a little in the. So it’s a good thing that, such as i6Comp to extract the files. Just download it (I picked i6comp02.zip) and then run i6comp. This is what i6Comp looks like when listing files from the data.cab file: C: temp InstallShieldi6comp l -v -r data1.cab InstallShield 6.x Cabinet Util Version 0.2 - fOSSiL & Morlac - 2000 - Date Time OrigSize Attr CompSize Ind FileName 9 5841 0 corecomp.ini 4 A 29916 1 ctor.dll 8 A 4483 2 objectps.dll. 90 A 264385 180 PowerDVD.CHM 6 A 30014 342 AudioFilter clds.dll 6 A 8203 343 AudioFilter clwo.dll 60 A 81241 344 AudioFilter CLADR.ax 76 A 43046 347 AudioFilter CLAuTS.ax 8 A 27800 348 AudioFilter CLAudioCD.ax 08 A 239856 349 NavFilter CLNAVX.ax 92 A 205346 350 VideoFilter CLVSD.ax 8 A 23075 351 VideoFilter CLLine21.ax - - - 4980422 311 file(s) total C: temp InstallShield The list output is more interesting than the extract output.
Which is why I’ve showed list.