Cabinet (file format)
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In computing, CAB is the Microsoft Windows native compressed archive format. It supports compression and digital signing, and is used in a variety of Microsoft installation engines: Setup API, Device Installer, AdvPack (for the installation of ActiveX components from Internet Explorer) and Windows Installer.
The CAB file format allows for three data compression methods:
- DEFLATE, invented by Phil Katz, the author of the ZIP file format.
- Quantum, licensed from David Stafford, the author of the Quantum archiver.
- LZX, invented by Jonathan Forbes and Tomi Poutanen, given to Microsoft when Jonathan joined the company.
See also
External links
- [Microsoft Cabinet SDK]
- [7-Zip] is an LGPL licensed utility that supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB.
- [cabextract] is Free Software for unpacking cabinet files in UNIX
- [libmspack] is an LGPL licensed, portable library for creating and extracting CAB files and other Microsoft misc. formats.
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