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In computing, CAB is the Microsoft Windows native compressed archive format. Usually used at ActiveX's Downloading or Windows Installer Service.
The CAB file format allows for three compression methods:
- deflate, invented by Phil Katz, the author of ZIP.
- Quantum, licensed from David Stafford, the author of the Quantum archiver.
- LZX, invented by Jonathan Forbes and Tomi Poutanen, gifted to Microsoft when Jonathan joined the company.
- application/x-cab-compressed
See also
ZIP, 7-Zip, RAR, LHA, DGCA, GCA, archive formats.
External links
- 7-Zip (http://www.7-zip.org/) is an LGPL licensed utility that supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB.
- cabextract (http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/cabextract.php) is Free Software for unpacking cabinet files in UNIX
- libmspack (http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/libmspack/) is an LGPL licensed, portable library for creating and extracting CAB files and other Microsoft formats.
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