Archive: question about ms-cab and LZX-compression
question about ms-cab and LZX-compression
the cab file size that I made by makecab.exe of ms is lager than that
made by winace or wincab.
I noticed following message in help file of wincab .
WinCAB is a utility to compress and decompress CAB-files. As opposed to
other CAB utilities, it DOES support LZX-compression.
(LZX compresses a lot better than ZIP, ARJ and LHA)
but they don't tell me how to use LZX with makecab or cabinet.dll.
could you tell me the usage?
I got it from cab-sdk
But I still wonder how to use makecab to do the same .
it's seems that iexpress in ieak and wincab can do it.
C:\>cabarc
Microsoft (R) Cabinet Tool - Version 5.1.2600.0
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved..
Usage: CABARC [options] command cabfile [@list] [files] [dest_dir]
Commands:
L List contents of cabinet (e.g. cabarc l test.cab)
N Create new cabinet (e.g. cabarc n test.cab *.c app.mak *.h)
X Extract file(s) from cabinet (e.g. cabarc x test.cab foo*.c)
Options:
-c Confirm files to be operated on
-o When extracting, overwrite without asking for confirmation
-m Set compression type [LZX:<15..21>|MSZIP|NONE], (default is MSZIP)
-p Preserve path names (absolute paths not allowed)
-P Strip specified prefix from files when added
-r Recurse into subdirectories when adding files (see -p also)
-s Reserve space in cabinet for signing (e.g. -s 6144 reserves 6K bytes)
-i Set cabinet set ID when creating cabinets (default is 0)
-d Set diskette size (default is no limit/single CAB)
Notes
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When creating a cabinet, the plus sign (+) may be used as a filename
to force a folder boundary; e.g. cabarc n test.cab *.c test.h + *.bmp
When extracting files to disk, the <dest_dir>, if provided, must end in
a backslash; e.g. cabarc x test.cab bar*.cpp *.h d:\test\
The -P (strip prefix) option can be used to strip out path information
e.g. cabarc -r -p -P myproj\ a test.cab myproj\balloon\*.*
The -P option can be used multiple times to strip out multiple paths
When creating cabinet sets using -d, the cabinet name should contain
a single '*' character where the cabinet number will be inserted.