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    From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 3 07:50:47 2023
    The .cab filename extension is also used by other installer programs
    (e.g. InstallShield) for their own proprietary archiving formats.
    InstallShield uses zlib for compression (see Deflate), but their headers
    are not the same as for Microsoft CAB files so they are incompatible and
    cannot be manipulated or edited with the programs that are made for
    standard cabinet format. Specialized third-party utilities, such as
    Unshield, can extract this specific proprietary format.[18] This format
    has a different magic number of ISC(.[19]

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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to Louis Ohland on Sun Dec 3 07:53:08 2023
    https://github.com/twogood/unshield

    Louis Ohland wrote:
    The .cab filename extension is also used by other installer programs
    (e.g. InstallShield) for their own proprietary archiving formats. InstallShield uses zlib for compression (see Deflate), but their headers
    are not the same as for Microsoft CAB files so they are incompatible and cannot be manipulated or edited with the programs that are made for
    standard cabinet format. Specialized third-party utilities, such as
    Unshield, can extract this specific proprietary format.[18] This format
    has a different magic number of ISC(.[19]

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 3 07:58:42 2023
    https://web.archive.org/web/20180209161805/http://www.zlib.net/

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