[Kelsenellenelvian]

The installer.

[RyanVM]

jdoe, on Oct 24 2005, 12:10 PM, said:

It's good to read that kind of comments. Thanks you guys.

No, thank you!

[jdoe]

Oleg_II, on Oct 24 2005, 04:13 PM, said:

Great utility! I'm using old CMD version and it's fantastic!
I tried new version but it couldn't cab subfolders. And I can't dowload the fixed version now. Any mirror?

And one question: CABTOOL.EXE is only about 12KB but the downloaded file is a bit bigger, does it place some other files in system folders for internal use? Like cabarc or something else?

Looks like some of my ISP servers were down few hours but now it's up and running. You should be able to download v1.5

Like kelsenellenelvian said, it's the installer...
I use Inno Setup (free) and the minimum setup file size is around 250Kb. I know it's stupid to have a 280Kb installer for a 12Kb file but this way I have an uninstaller and an easy link creation in SendTo folder.

Any suggestions about a way to build a smaller installer are welcome.

And for your information, no more files are added except CABTOOL.exe and change.log in Program Files folder.
This program don't use executables like cabarc or makecab. Instead, it use the Win32 APIs (Windows 2000 and higher).

This post has been edited by jdoe: 24 October 2005 - 10:13 PM

[Oleg_II]

Thank you! Download it and it works like a charm here too!

It doesn't delete things now. Ok it should be even better.

It may be installed with INF that places needed file in needed folder and makes shortcut in SendTo menu

Thanks for the great tool!

This post has been edited by Oleg_II: 25 October 2005 - 10:34 PM

[Kelsenellenelvian]

Hey oleg II can I see your inf for this please?

[jdoe]

Oleg_II, on Oct 25 2005, 06:15 AM, said:

It may be installed with INF that places needed file in needed folder and makes shortcut in SendTo menu

Thanks for the idea.
I gonna try an INF compiled in SFX archive. That should be perfect for a small installer.

[Oleg_II]

Well, frankly speaking I don't use INF for installing this. I install it just placing in one of the HFSLIP folders and it is CABed and integrated into my distro automatically. I just have to make this shortcut with my install.inf (installs all my regestry tweaks, arrange links and does other things during unattended):

[Version]
Signature=$CHICAGO$

[DefaultInstall]
UpdateInis = Arrange.Link

[Arrange.Link]
; Send To
setup.ini, progman.groups,, "group11=""%16393%"""
setup.ini, group11,, """CAB Tool"",""""""%11%\cabtool.exe"""""",,,,""%11%"",""cabtool.exe"""

In this example tool is in system32 because with HFSLIP it is impossible by now to install it in %ProgramFiles%.

Change it according to your needs.

This post has been edited by Oleg_II: 25 October 2005 - 10:33 PM

[Oleg_II]

Yes, that's better because credits should go to the Master

[Kelsenellenelvian]

Couple of questions:

Does it always have to capatalize?

Does it work the same as modifype when cabbing single files?

Also any way to add a nice pretty icon?

This post has been edited by kelsenellenelvian: 26 October 2005 - 06:18 AM

[RyanVM]

ModifyPE is for changing file checksum information in the PE header when you hack a file. It has nothing to do with CAB compression

[Kelsenellenelvian]

Alright good point.

[Oleg_II]

But modifype usage was included in previous version?

[Kelsenellenelvian]

I added a nice pretty Icon in both 16x16 and 32x32 sizes. Looks rather XPized. The final size is only increased by 5kb. If you like it just use this one.

[jdoe]

kelsenellenelvian, on Oct 26 2005, 06:58 PM, said:

I added a nice pretty Icon in both 16x16 and 32x32 sizes. Looks rather XPized. The final size is only increased by 5kb. If you like it just use this one.

kelsenellenelvian,

I would be stupid to not like this icon but I'm sure you'll understand if I ask you where this icon come from.


If it's your own work, be sure this icon is in the next build.

[Kelsenellenelvian]

One of the gnu icons gleaned form wincustomize.dot com so it is safe to use.

[jdoe]

CAB Tools 1.8

See first post for details and download link.


Drop 1.5 and get this one. It's a little bit better.

Any bug ?

This post has been edited by jdoe: 09 January 2006 - 02:59 AM

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

@jdoe

Thanks for a cool app & will install silently with /Q

Cheers

MC

[jdoe]

MAVERICKS CHOICE, on Jan 9 2006, 05:57 AM, said:

@jdoe

Thanks for a cool app & will install silently with /Q

Cheers

MC

And /C for extracting files only.

[RogueSpear]

It always amazes me how I stumble upon these multipage threads that have somehow escaped my attention. Just in time too. I was just going to start making a VBscript that does exactly what this does. No sense in reinventing the wheel, especially when it wouldn't be as good of a wheel

Thanks for the great tool.

[Kelsenellenelvian]

Hey I love this app and thanks for the GREAT update!!!!