Free .rar opener

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Thank you. I will consider this program, although some dating pop-up
attacked me, even though I have pop ups blocked.

: PuppyKatt wrote:
:
: > I am looking for a free program that will open .rar files/folders.
Any
: > suggestions?
:
: The best one (IMO and IME) is ICEows:
:
: http://www.iceows.com/HomePageUS.html
:
: --
: Regards from John Corliss
: No adware, cdware, commercial software, crippleware, demoware,
: nagware, shareware, spyware, time-limited software, trialware, viruses
: or warez please.
 
PuppyKatt said:
Thank you. I will consider this program, although some dating pop-up
attacked me, even though I have pop ups blocked.
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Sorry about that (those jerks). I didn't see the popup because I use
WebWasher. However, the program is still worth the download.
I've tested about all the archiving programs out there at one time
or another and this one is as reliable and unproblematic as the
shareware Winzip (only mentioned here for comparison purposes.)
*None*, NOT ONE of the other freeware archivers met that standard IME.
Maybe that's changed since I tested each of them, but I figure what
I've got works, so there's no point in looking further.
 
John Corliss said:
I've tested about all the archiving programs out there at one time
or another and this one is as reliable and unproblematic as the
shareware Winzip (only mentioned here for comparison purposes.)
*None*, NOT ONE of the other freeware archivers met that standard IME.
Maybe that's changed since I tested each of them, but I figure what
I've got works, so there's no point in looking further.
Click to expand...

Yeah, ZipGenius looked promising, but it was extremely slow. Iceows
works like a charm. Only thing really missing is the ability to create
..tgz files.

martin
 
: PuppyKatt wrote:
: > John Corliss wrote:
: >> PuppyKatt wrote:
: >>
: >>> I am looking for a free program that will open .rar files/folders.
: >>> Any suggestions?
: >>
: >> The best one (IMO and IME) is ICEows:
: >>
: >> http://www.iceows.com/HomePageUS.html
: >
: > Thank you. I will consider this program, although some dating
pop-up
: > attacked me, even though I have pop ups blocked.
:
: Sorry about that (those jerks). I didn't see the popup because I use
: WebWasher. However, the program is still worth the download.
: I've tested about all the archiving programs out there at one time
: or another and this one is as reliable and unproblematic as the
: shareware Winzip (only mentioned here for comparison purposes.)
: *None*, NOT ONE of the other freeware archivers met that standard IME.
: Maybe that's changed since I tested each of them, but I figure what
: I've got works, so there's no point in looking further.
:
: --
: Regards from John Corliss

Okay, I will give it a try. Thanks John.
 
John Corliss said:
I've tested about all the archiving programs out there at one time
or another and this one is as reliable and unproblematic as the
shareware Winzip (only mentioned here for comparison purposes.)
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Found any freeware to handle the MS compressed cab format? I don't mean
regular old cabs. I mean those special setup exes. Those where you see
an icon that has that picture of a yellow postal box in the forefront,
and then a progman-like window behind it.

I've just now right this moment had one them cross my path. It was for a
program mentioned in ACF recently. Log Monitor. http://logmon.bitrix.ru/

I had to pull out $Winzip7 for the job. I would very much prefer if I could
replace with freeware. (I have a licensed $Winzip6, but it's a license
only for that version, and I don't really want to have to consider paying
money for an archive utility.)

Btw, I have not tested Iceows. I was hoping that if it could indeed handle
this format, someone would let me in on the good news.
 
omega said:
Found any freeware to handle the MS compressed cab format? I don't mean
regular old cabs. I mean those special setup exes. Those where you see
an icon that has that picture of a yellow postal box in the forefront,
and then a progman-like window behind it.

I've just now right this moment had one them cross my path. It was for a
program mentioned in ACF recently. Log Monitor. http://logmon.bitrix.ru/

I had to pull out $Winzip7 for the job. I would very much prefer if I could
replace with freeware. (I have a licensed $Winzip6, but it's a license
only for that version, and I don't really want to have to consider paying
money for an archive utility.)

Btw, I have not tested Iceows. I was hoping that if it could indeed handle
this format, someone would let me in on the good news.
Click to expand...

AH GEE. After posting, I decided I should give a list of the freeware
archive utilits that I have tried for this. Then...well, don't know how
I'd been so remiss earlier, but, the very first one I lauched, it did it!
That was 7zip.

Well, all good now, that's one down, where I no longer have to hop the fence
at dusk, and sneak over to the payware crops.
 
omega wrote in said:
Found any freeware to handle the MS compressed cab format? I don't mean
regular old cabs. I mean those special setup exes. Those where you see
an icon that has that picture of a yellow postal box in the forefront,
and then a progman-like window behind it.

I've just now right this moment had one them cross my path. It was for a
program mentioned in ACF recently. Log Monitor. http://logmon.bitrix.ru/
Click to expand...

execab32.zip EXE 2 CAB Converter v3.2 - Converts SFX CAB (EXE)
files to non-SFX CAB files
<ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/pack/execab32.zip>

From the <file_id.diz>:
EXE to CAB converter ver 3.2 Convert
SFX CAB (EXE) files distributed by
Microsoft to non-SFX CAB files.
For Windows 95. By Yuri Niyazov. FreeWare

Tried on the setup.exe in the LogMon archive, worked.

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
 
Bjorn Simonsen said:
execab32.zip EXE 2 CAB Converter v3.2 - Converts SFX CAB (EXE)
files to non-SFX CAB files
<ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/pack/execab32.zip>

From the <file_id.diz>:
EXE to CAB converter ver 3.2 Convert
SFX CAB (EXE) files distributed by
Microsoft to non-SFX CAB files.
For Windows 95. By Yuri Niyazov. FreeWare
Click to expand...

I was earlier struggling to come up with the proper name for the format.
Trying to gleen from here... "Microsoft SFX Cabinet files"?

For the record, I've finally discovered: 7-Zip and IZarc handle it.
Tried on the setup.exe in the LogMon archive, worked.
Click to expand...

The utility you've posted about, judging from appearance, looks like
it will be small and straightforward, and maybe even green too. I look
forward to putting it in the toolbox.

I've got a lardload of those files sitting over in my MSFT archives.
Huge bunch of library package type things. Tremendous redundancy there,
that needs some serious organizing - housecleaning. Now I can (when I'm
up to the project) do some mass extractions, and kill all the dupes of
the files contents. Not something that was possible when execute was the
only action with those files.

Thank you for finding the utility, Bjorn. I might put off the project
mentioned for some time. But it will be worthwhile to try out for just
those normal downloads (like Log Monitor) that come down the pike.
 
omega wrote in said:
I was earlier struggling to come up with the proper name for the format.
Trying to gleen from here... "Microsoft SFX Cabinet files"?
Click to expand...

Look at properties for setup.exe from the Log Monitor archive:

"Win32 Cabinet Self-Extractor" :)

All the best
Bjorn Simonsen
 
Bjorn Simonsen said:
Look at properties for setup.exe from the Log Monitor archive:

"Win32 Cabinet Self-Extractor" :)
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Get that smiRk off your face! The reason I didn't look at properties
was because, uhm, well my mouse wasn't clicking right and it's down at
the shop for repairs.
 
omega said:
Found any freeware to handle the MS compressed cab format? I don't mean
regular old cabs. I mean those special setup exes. Those where you see
an icon that has that picture of a yellow postal box in the forefront,
and then a progman-like window behind it.
Click to expand...

Sorry. Never had the need for such a program. However, I can see from
a response below that somebody found one for you.
 
execab32.zip EXE 2 CAB Converter v3.2 - Converts SFX CAB (EXE)
files to non-SFX CAB files
<ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/pack/execab32.zip>
Click to expand...

A 9k executable. Will run however prefer: GUI or CLI.

Seeing that it runs CLI, I started thinking over doing a mass
conversion of all those setup files I've got piled up in my msft
archive directory.

Step one is easy of course. To gen a list of all of the target
filenames. Step 2 is easy. Text editor to prepend the command
string in the front of each file name. Step 3 is beyond me.
How to add <filename>.cab at the end of each line.

That is, to prepare a list of of filenames for process, how to
get from here:

exe2cab -q axdist.exe
exe2cab -q mdac_typ.exe

To here:

exe2cab -q axdist.exe axdist.cab
exe2cab -q mdac_typ.exe mdac_typ.cab

Strikes me that this might require something along the lines of advanced
SED skills? Now, if only...I could cheat here...and someone could hand-feed
a nice script command to do that text processing ...
 
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