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NAME
       cabextract - program to extract files from Microsoft cabi-
       net (.cab) archives

SYNOPSIS
       cabextract [-ddir] [-f] [-Fpattern] [-h]  [-l]  [-L]  [-p]
       [-q] [-s] [-t] [-v]  cabinet files ...

DESCRIPTION
       cabextract  is  a  program  that  un-archives files in the
       Microsoft cabinet file format (.cab) or  any  binary  file
       which  contains an embedded cabinet file (frequently found
       in .exe files).

       cabextract will extract all files from all  cabinet  files
       specified on the command line.

       To  extract  a  multi-part  cabinet  consisting of several
       files, only the first cabinet file needs to be given as an
       argument  to  cabextract as it will automatically look for
       the remaining files. To prevent cabextract from extracting
       cabinet files you did not specify, use the -s option.

OPTIONS
       A summary of options is included below.

       -d dir Extracts all files into the directory dir.

       -f     When testing or extracting cabinet files, corrupted
              MSZIP blocks will be ignored.  A  warning  will  be
              printed  if a corrupted MSZIP block is encountered.

       -F pattern
              Only files with names that match the shell  pattern
              pattern  shall  be  listed, tested or extracted. On
              non-GNU systems, this match may be  case-sensitive.

       -h     Prints a page of help and exits.

       -l     Lists  the  contents  of  the  given cabinet files,
              rather than extracting them.

       -L     When extracting cabinet files, makes each extracted
              file's name lowercase.

       -p     Files shall be extracted to standard output.

       -q     When  extracting cabinet files, suppresses all mes-
              sages except errors and warnings.

       -s     When testing, listing or extracting cabinets  which
              span  multiple  files,  only cabinet files given on
              the command line shall be used.




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       -t     Tests the  integrity  of  the  cabinet.  Files  are
              decompressed,  but  not written to disk or standard
              output. If the file successfully decompresses,  the
              MD5 checksum of the file is printed.

       -v     If given alone on the command line, prints the ver-
              sion of cabextract and exits. Given with a list  of
              cabinet  files,  it  will  list the contents of the
              cabinet files.

AUTHOR
       This   manual   page   was   written   by   Stuart    Caie
       <kyzer@4u.net>,  based  on the one written by Eric Sharkey
       <sharkey@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.











































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