Re: possible to extract .cab files under linux?
On Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 07:27:04PM -0500, addiction wrote:
> Hello..
>
> Rather silly question but here goes:
>
> I don't have access to Windows or DOS and I need to extract the contents
> of some .cab files. I was wondering if there is any tool I can use to do
> this, since this is a Microsoft free Debian machine.
I went looking for something a few weeks ago and turned up a project
which was trying to build some libraries to extract cab files. I don't
think it's production level yet.
> All I want to do is extract some truetype fonts from various .cabs I have on
> old cd-roms (I need them for something in particular).
Hmmm.... Ok, that didn't work. I was going to park a set of TT Fonts
on my website but I exceeded my space quota :-(
> I did consider the possibility of using dosemu or wine with some kind of
> command-line program made for DOS (something like winzip or cabview I guess
> it'd be) but since Windows/DOS is not installed on this machine I really
> have no way of doing this (that I can think of).
Try dosemu with FreeDOS. I believe it's a deb you can download.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.. either a recommendation for a
> program which runs under Linux to extract such files, or any other logical
> method I might use to accomplish this task.
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