Fastest way to extract from CAB files

[Analada]

Extract a cab file from your windows 98 CD in no time flat, simply by typing "cabx <filename>.<extension>".

The full method is here:

http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc1/v6/vic6.htm

If you don't want to read all the blurb. Copy and paste the following. Substitute your own cd/dvd drive letter and save as cabx.bat:

@echo off

REM *****MAKE SURE WIN98CD CD IS IN DRIVE G*****

if "%1"=="" goto error

CLS

for %%i in (G:\Win98\*.CAB) do extract %%i %1

ECHO.

IF EXIST %1 ECHO %1 successfully extracted.

IF NOT EXIST %1 ECHO %1 not found

goto end

:error

echo.

echo Syntax: CabX file-to-extract

echo Example: CabX Control.exe

echo.

:end

This will also work for win95 or win ME. Just change win98 above into what is appropriate.

[Fredledingue]

Very useful for scripting. Thanks!

[erpdude8]

very good, though it would be better to store all the 98 setup files on the HDD so that Win98 won't ask for the CD when adding windows features or when installing new hardware

Edited July 11, 2007 by erpdude8

[soporific]

very good, though it would be better to store all the 98 setup files on the HDD so that Win98 won't ask for the CD when adding windows features or when installing new hardware

That's irregardless of what he's showing us to do ... when you try to extract a CAB file using a zipper program (eg 7-Zip etc) it extracts the files from EVERY single CAB file in the chain. So i'm assuming this is a method for just extracting th files from ONE cab file. VERY useful ...

Or i could be wrong ...

[Arminius]

That's irregardless of what he's showing us to do ... when you try to extract a CAB file using a zipper program (eg 7-Zip etc) it extracts the files from EVERY single CAB file in the chain. So i'm assuming this is a method for just extracting th files from ONE cab file. VERY useful ...

WinRAR also insists on extracing every file in the chain. For me the easiest way I have found to extract the contents of CAB files is to use Winzip.

Winzip extracts only the contents of the CAB file I am trying to open. If the head end of a file starts in one CAB but continues on into the next CAB Winzip will extract that file as well. If the next CAB in the chain is not present in the same folder Winzip will ask for it.

Winzip ignores files that have their head end in the previous CAB but have their tail end in the CAB I am extracting.

I still use Winzip 8.1 and I know Winzip 9.0 works the same way. I haven't tried any of the later versions, I think they dropped support for Win9x.

(I have been reading through a lot of old posts so bear with me.)