changes since 0.5:
* pkgsrc fixes for 0.5 integrated
* support for the Quantum compression method reverse-engineered by
Matthew Russotto
* cabextract now exhaustively searches your files for cabinets.
If there's more than one cabinet in the same file, cabextract will
find those too.
* Spanning cabinets sets contain both a 'next' and 'previous' cabinet
name. cabextract now searches backwards through the cabinet chain
to find the start of a cabinet set, before searching in the forwards
direction as usual.
- Do not compute a pointer outside of an array.
The original code did this and if the executable is mapped at the
low address in virtual space, the "runsrc" value becomes ``negative''
address and caused crash.
Package maintainers should use a.out to detect this sort of botches. :D
- Fix usage of mktime(3).
- Fix usage of tolower(3).
Changes:
- Honor umask for file mode.
- Add a hack to handle self-extracting cabinet (*.exe).
cabextract is a program that un-archives files in the Microsoft
cabinet file format (.cab) or any binary file which contains an
embedded cabinet file (frequently found in .exe files).
cabextract will extract all files from all cabinet files specified on
the command line
To extract a multi-part cabinet consisting of several files, only give
the first file as an argument to cabextract as it will automatically
look for the remaining files.
Provided in PR 14259 by Ben Collver (collver@linuxfreemail.com), the
description fleshed out slightly by myself, taken from the man page.
