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the selectiveness of the ? wildcard, you might end up with files that you didn??™t really want to find.
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alternatives, such as the RAR format supported by WinRAR (http://www.rarlab.com/). However,
you can use the cabinet (CAB) file format without buying a third-party utility. The only utility
provided with newer Windows versions is MakeCAB. An older utility, Diantz, appears on the hard
drive, but it calls MakeCAB. The CAB file appears in many places in Windows. For example, you??™ll
find that Microsoft uses CABs to compress many application files on setup disks. In fact, there??™s even
a Microsoft Cabinet Software Development Kit discussed at http://support.microsoft.com/
kb/310618/. This utility uses the following syntax:
MAKECAB [/V[n]] [/D var=value ...] [/L dir] source [destination]
MAKECAB [/V[n]] [/D var=value ...] /F directive_file [...]
The following list describes each of the command line arguments.
source Specifies the name of the file you want to compress. Unlike many Windows utilities,
you can??™t use wildcards to create a file specification. Provide a source filename when you want
to compress a single file or a directive file when you want to compress multiple files.
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