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Re: Question: Browsing M$-syle compressed Install CDs



On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 12:12:39PM -0600, Donald R. Spoon wrote:
> I recently had to pull some soundbank files for my SoundBlaster-64 AWE
> off Creative's "intall" CD to make the card work with the AWE function
> under Linux.  The only way I could figure out how to do this was to find
> a computer with Windows on it, install the card and software on it, then
> copy the files over via Samba.  This was a PITA!  
> 
> Is there some way to access these files from the CD using Linux
> decompression tools, like gzip, unzip, etc?.  I am not at all familiar
> with the Microsoft compression schema.

Are they in .cab files? You can use 'cabextract' to unpack these.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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