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Re: updated package unshield (0.5)



On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 07:09:37PM +0000, Iain Hibbert wrote:
> > Hi, I just committed an update to unshield which is a small program to
> > unpack .CAB files (that InstallShield uses under windows) and the program
> > seems to work much better (older version would core dump for some reason)
>
> How does it differ from archivers/cabextract as used e.g. for
> fonts/ms-ttf?

>From what I recall, the InstallShield .CAB files have some extra guff that
is not handled properly by cabextract or lcab - I needed unshield last
year but 0.3 coredumped after use and I just got around to updating it. In
fact, I just now notice that martin@ already added unshield-0.5 some time
ago so my bad!

iain

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