MAKECAB help

[RyanVM]

I've noticed that the makecab utility doesn't use LZH compression by default (which usually get's an extra 15-20% off the size of the file). I saw in jdeboeck's batch files how he uses a DDF file to enable LZH when recompressing drivers.cab. I want to adapt that for a different purpose. I want to script cab-ifying (I love making up words ) all the files in a directory, but as individual .DL_ or .SY_ files rather than as one giant CAB file. This would be pretty easy if there were a command line option for enabling LZH compression, but I haven't found it yet.

Anybody have an idea how to accomplish this?

[RyanVM]

Bueller?

[jrzycrim]

Not sure if this will be useful but you might try checking the documentation that comes with the Cabinet Software Development Kit.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default..../html/cabdl.asp

Makecab is a part of that kit so the docs should have something to say about it.

[Bâshrat the Sneaky]

So how could I do this? I can't really find it... :s :$

[RyanVM]

Thanks jrzycrim, I found what I was looking for in one of the docs. Below is code for a batch script which will automatically compress all .SYS files in a directory into .SY_ files with LZX compression. One caveat, it only works if the path has no spaces in it. If you can figure out a way around that, let me know.

@echo off
rem Compressing Driversfor /f %%i in ('dir *.sys /b /s') do makecab /D CompressionType=LZX "%%i"