General Question What do the these exes do?

[Michkov]

The one in the Utils folder in the main orbiter directory. I have a idea what Date, dxtex and pltex do. But what about the other 2(CABARC & EXTRACT)

 

[kuddel]

Hi Michkov,

these two are used to extract or get information about cabinet (CAB) files.
I don't know exactly, but I think the setup procedure of orbiter uses them when checking if the redistibutables are installed (e.g. vcredist_x86.exe in ./Install folder)

For the log: here's what they (can) do:

Microsoft (R) Cabinet Tool - Version 1.00.0601 (03/18/97)
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1996-1997. All rights reserved.

Usage: [B][COLOR="Blue"]CABARC[/COLOR][/B] [options] command cabfile [@list] [files] [dest_dir]

Commands:
   L   List contents of cabinet (e.g. cabarc l test.cab)
   N   Create new cabinet (e.g. cabarc n test.cab *.c app.mak *.h)
   X   Extract file(s) from cabinet (e.g. cabarc x test.cab foo*.c)

Options:
  -c   Confirm files to be operated on
  -o   When extracting, overwrite without asking for confirmation
  -m   Set compression type [LZX:<15..21>|MSZIP|NONE], (default is MSZIP)
  -p   Preserve path names (absolute paths not allowed)
  -P   Strip specified prefix from files when added
  -r   Recurse into subdirectories when adding files (see -p also)
  -s   Reserve space in cabinet for signing (e.g. -s 6144 reserves 6K bytes)
  -i   Set cabinet set ID when creating cabinets (default is 0)

Notes
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When creating a cabinet, the plus sign (+) may be used as a filename
to force a folder boundary; e.g. cabarc n test.cab *.c test.h + *.bmp

When extracting files to disk, the <dest_dir>, if provided, must end in
a backslash; e.g. cabarc x test.cab bar*.cpp *.h d:\test\

The -P (strip prefix) option can be used to strip out path information
e.g. cabarc -r -p -P myproj\ a test.cab myproj\balloon\*.*
The -P option can be used multiple times to strip out multiple paths

Microsoft (R) Diamond Extraction Tool - Version (32) 1.00.0601 (03/18/97)
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1994-1997. All rights reserved.

[B][COLOR="Blue"]EXTRACT[/COLOR][/B] [/Y] [/A] [/D | /E] [/L dir] cabinet [filename ...]
EXTRACT [/Y] source [newname]
EXTRACT [/Y] /C source destination

  cabinet  - Cabinet file (contains two or more files).
  filename - Name of the file to extract from the cabinet.
             Wild cards and multiple filenames (separated by
             blanks) may be used.

  source   - Compressed file (a cabinet with only one file).
  newname  - New filename to give the extracted file.
             If not supplied, the original name is used.

  /A         Process ALL cabinets.  Follows cabinet chain
             starting in first cabinet mentioned.
  /C         Copy source file to destination (to copy from DMF disks).
  /D         Display cabinet directory (use with filename to avoid extract).
  /E         Extract (use instead of *.* to extract all files).
  /L dir     Location to place extracted files (default is current directory).
  /Y         Do not prompt before overwriting an existing file.

 

[Michkov]

Thanks:thumbup: