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NAME
       cabextract - program to extract files from Microsoft cabinet (.cab)
       archives

SYNOPSIS
       cabextract [-ddir] [-f] [-Fpattern] [-h] [-l] [-L] [-p] [-q] [-s] [-t]
       [-v]  cabinet files ...

DESCRIPTION
       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 the
       first cabinet file needs to be given as an argument to cabextract as it
       will automatically look for the remaining files. To prevent cabextract
       from extracting cabinet files you did not specify, use the -s option.

OPTIONS
       A summary of options is included below.

       -d dir Extracts all files into the directory dir.

       -f     When testing or extracting cabinet files, corrupted MSZIP blocks
              will be ignored. A warning will be printed if a corrupted MSZIP
              block is encountered.

       -F pattern
              Only files with names that match the shell pattern pattern shall
              be listed, tested or extracted. On non-GNU systems, this match
              may be case-sensitive.

       -h     Prints a page of help and exits.

       -l     Lists the contents of the given cabinet files, rather than
              extracting them.

       -L     When extracting cabinet files, makes each extracted file's name
              lowercase.

       -p     Files shall be extracted to standard output.

       -q     When extracting cabinet files, suppresses all messages except
              errors and warnings.

       -s     When testing, listing or extracting cabinets which span multiple
              files, only cabinet files given on the command line shall be
              used.

       -t     Tests the integrity of the cabinet. Files are decompressed, but
              not written to disk or standard output. If the file successfully
              decompresses, the MD5 checksum of the file is printed.

       -v     If given alone on the command line, prints the version of
              cabextract and exits. Given with a list of cabinet files, it
              will list the contents of the cabinet files.

AUTHOR
       This manual page was written by Stuart Caie <kyzer@4u.net>, based on
       the one written by Eric Sharkey <sharkey@debian.org>, for the Debian
       GNU/Linux system.

                               October 30, 2005                  CABEXTRACT(1)