Make all cabbed files into 7z files?

[LeveL]

In I386 the files are all cabbed so where you have say shell32.dll

is appears as shell32.dl_

But 7-zip would save space, for example the file shell32.dll

as a cab file is 4.31Mb but the dll file as a 7z file is 3.70Mb.

This would take a lot of hacking about to do it, you'd have to probably

scrap all the references to all the cab files in TXTSETUP.SIF and find

some other way of doing the whole setup but still, I bet you could save

about 50Mb or something even from a moderately nLite'd OS.

EDIT:

OK so I took roughly 3,500 cabbed files from I386 and you do indeed save

a lot of space if you could have them as 7z files...

CAB files = 176.8Mb

7z files = 133.7Mb

More than 43Mb saved!

The reason I think this might be possible is because Bashrat The Sneaky

managed to make a "fake setup" to deal with SATA drivers on an unattended

installation.

It would take a lot of work to do this 7z thing but I think its possible!

Edited January 27, 2007 by LeveL