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In computing, CAB is the Microsoft Windows native compressed archive format. It supports compression and digital signing, and it's used in a variety of Microsoft installation engines: Setup API , Device Installer , AdvPack (for the installation of ActiveX components from Internet Explorer) and Windows Installer.The CAB file format allows for three data compression methods:
- deflate, invented by Phil Katz, the author of ZIP.
- Quantum, licensed from David Stafford, the author of the Quantum archiver.
- LZX, invented by Jonathan Forbes and Tomi Poutanen, given to Microsoft when Jonathan joined the company.
- application/x-cab-compressed
3 See also
ZIP, 7-Zip, RAR, LHA, DGCAIn computing, DGCA is a freeware compression utility created in 2001 by Shin-ichi Tsuruta (, Shin-ichi Tsuruta). DGCA is also a compressed archive format, the next generation of GCA'. DGCA has higher compression than ZIP, Strong Password, Unicode Filename, GCAGCA can also refer to giant cell arteritis, a form of vasculitis. In computing, GCA is a freeware compression utility created in 2000 by Shin-ichi Tsuruta (, Shin-ichi Tsuruta). GCA is a compressed archive format. It has higher compression capabilities th, archive formats.
4 External links
- 7-Zip is an LGPL licensed utility that supports 7zIn computing, 7z is an archive format which allows data compression using a number of compression algorithms. The format was initially implemented by the 7-Zip archiver but the file format is public and 7-Zip's implementation of it is publicly available u, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO , RPM and DEB.
- cabextract is Free Software for unpacking cabinet files in UNIX
- libmspack is an LGPL licensed, portable library for creating and extracting CAB files and other Microsoft formats.
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