Re: possible to extract .cab files under linux?
The CD should come with a DOS program to extract the cab files,
EXTRACT.EXE, I think. Have you tried using that under dosemu/freedos?
-brad
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, 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.
>
> 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).
>
> 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).
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> addi
>
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