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Ninthwave,
According to WinZip, they do not require any external programs to deal with Microsoft's .cab files (not to be confused with Norton's). They have most likely incorporated Microsoft's toolkit.

The toolkit provides binaries and documents covering the standards. I am not sure if it is sufficient to do your own Perl port.

I didn't find anything searching CPAN, but I did find CabExtract if you need it to run in a non-windows environment.

Cheers - L~R

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by Ninthwave (Chaplain) on Nov 12, 2003 at 21:07 UTC

    Thank you, I am still researching the links. I am debating having the files stored on a linux box and the processing that is win32 dependent on a 2000 box. I don't know yet I would like it to work on both in the end. But that envolves the evolution of Tie::Registry to be POSIX capable, and a change to DBI for me. But this code is the working model I would than tweak it once it processes correctly. Out of curiousity did you search for these links, have you found them before or a combination of both, because I can usually find enough information to get me started but I couldn't on this subject.

    "No matter where you go, there you are." BB
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