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i6comp v1.03beta Release Notes
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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(InstallShield v6.x Compression and Maintenance util)
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-] Morlac - Jul-20-2000 [-
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General exception bugfix -] DarkSoul - Jan-10-2002 [-
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(InstallShield v5.x Compression and Maintenance util)
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-] fOSSiL - Jul-10-1999 [-
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1. INTRODUCTION
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2. INSTALLATION
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3. CONCEPTS
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4. UNSUPPORTED
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1. INTRODUCTION
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---------------
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This is a utility to handle version 6 of the InstallShield cabinet files.
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Its based on i5comp by -] fOSSiL [-, so, thank him first. Without his
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excellent work, this one would not exist.
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All features are present from i5comp. What changed was the data structures
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only. The decompression routines are handled in ZD51145.DLL.
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I hope that no body flames me for using the i5comp readme, but i suck big
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time when it comes to writting docs.
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Changes/New features are:
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- [DarkSoul] Added bugix to aviod general exceptions. Should now work
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without errors on IS 6.3 cabinet files. I changed nothing else,
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so don't ask me if you still get errors!
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- [MORLAC] Converting multi-volume cabinets to a single one has been removed.
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No longer needed. Adding a file is not tested and propably wont work.
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- [MORLAC] Multi-Volume Cab's are supported. Cab's must be of the form:
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Data1.cab, Data2.cab, Data3.cab ...etc.
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This works in the case where all these files share the same Data1.hdr
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Of course, the name "Data" can be anyother like lw1.cab, lw2.cab...etc.
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:-)
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- [MORLAC] Now -f works with commands e and x, i.e:
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i6comp x -f data1.cab (files are decompressed under File Groups
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and subdirs)
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or
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i6comp e -f data1.cab (files are decompressed into their File
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Group sub-directory)
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- Added AutoDetect for cabinet version (yay!)
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It is no longer necessary to specify -v in most cases, only if
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autodetect fails for some reason
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- New option -o: suppresses any extra output, like comments, start msg
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(easier to make wrappers/GUI)
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Please note, that it will not suppress error and warning messages
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- New option -f: treat File Groups as directories
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Now u can use it instead of -g and specify filegroup name as u would
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specify a folder, i.e.:
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i6comp a -f data1.cab "English Intel 32 Files" *.dll
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(this will add all .dll files in the current dir to the
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filegroup "English Intel 32 Files" in data1.cab)
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or
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i6comp a -r -f data1.cab "English Intel 32 Files\Lalala\*"
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(this will add all files and subdirs starting from the
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"English Intel 32 Files\Lalala" directory to the subdir
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Lalala inside filegroup "English Intel 32 Files" in data1.cab)
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Other variants are possible too.
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This option was really intended for use with Far MultiArc plugin,
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see the next item ;)
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- Far MultiArc plugin script
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U can now use Far to browse IS cabinets and do some basic operations.
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There are some limitations of course - MultiArc cannot add files to
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a subdir inside an archive, so u have to work around by adding whole
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directories to the root of a cabinet, which is a list of File Groups ;)
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Please look at the attached Far-Arc.txt file for more details
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- Changed format of listings: mostly extended Size fields
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(uhm, files are getting bigger now, need more space ;)
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- Source code is now included with this version. You are welcome to make
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changes and recompile, the only thing I will ask is that u update the
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version to something like 2.<YourNick>.x in the start message :).
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Other than that - RTFM !
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2. INSTALLATION
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1) Put 'i6comp.exe' wherever u want (preferrably somewhere in PATH).
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2) Put 'zd*.dll' files in %WinSysDir%. For example, on Win95 that
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might be 'C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM' and on NT - 'C:\WINNT40\SYSTEM32'.
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Or u can put these files anywhere in PATH.
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3. CONCEPTS
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-----------
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1) COMMAND SYNTAX
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Unlike weird icomp.exe, i6comp mimics the command syntax of ARJ/RAR
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style compressors, but the big difference is that the established syntax
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order can not be broken, meaning that u have to specify <cmd> [-opts] <cab>
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in this order, no mixing is allowed.
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Just run i6comp with no parameters to see the explanation of syntax,
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commands and options.
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2) FILE INDEX
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Every file inside a cab has a fixed index. U can see that index when u
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do 'i6comp l your.cab' in the 'Ind' column. InstallShield allows duplicate
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filenames within one cab, so u might have to referr to the file by its
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index to ensure that u extract/replace the right one.
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3) MASK MATCHING
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In addition to the references to files by name and index u can use
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filemasks ('fmask' for short in the command line help). The mask matching in
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i6comp is extended compared to standard DOS one. U can use, for example,
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masks like this : a*b.dll, *b?c?d*.d*, etc. For example, '*b?c*.dll' will
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match with 'boc.dll', 'bac12.dll', 'aablc.dll', but will NOT match 'bc.dll'.
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4) FILEGROUPS
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Every file inside a cab belongs to some FileGroup. Because of this
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structure, u have to specify a FileGroup with a -g option when adding files
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to a cab. Alternatively, u cab use -f mode of i5comp, in which FileGroups
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are treated as directories.
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5) COMPRESSION DLLs
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Somewhere in the middle of the development of versions 5.x InstallShield
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changed the way the files are being compressed. Because of that the option -v
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was created. It allows u to specify which version of compression dll to use.
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With InstallShield ver 6, they changed the file structures inside the cabinet
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but they did not change the way the files are compressed.
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4. UNSUPPORTED
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1) Compressed files that span more than one cabinet are not tested and i
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dont think they exist.
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2) CAB creation functionality was never intended and required too much
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effort, especially since u can create CABs with InstallShield itself.
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BETA TESTERS : ;-b
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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GREETZ go to : fOSSiL for his i5comp and the source code.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Iceman of romania. Nice guy.
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G-Rom and the ProcDump team. I wish they continue it.
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+HCU for what they tought me.
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And anyone that i forgot. Its 4:05am, time to sleep.
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