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File extension CAB - Windows Cabinet Compressed Archive
File extension CAB description:
The CAB file extension is used for native compressed archive format used in Microsoft Windows. Also known as Cabinet files.
CAB supports compression and digital signing, and is used by a variety of Microsoft installation engines, such as Setup API, Device Installer, AdvPack (for the installation of ActiveX components from Internet Explorer) and Windows Installer.
The CAB file format works with three data compression methods:
- DEFLATE, invented by Phil Katz, the author of the ZIP file format.
- 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.
The *.cab files are also used in many installers (InstallShield and others), although it is mostly completely different format.
The default software that works with cab file format:
Company or developer:
Igor Pavlov
7-Zip is an open source file archiver with a high compression ratio. It is able to decompress a vast number of archiving format. Its localized to 79 languages and primary aimed for Windows platform. However it is available in unofficial releases for most other OS platforms. 7-zip is developed by Igor Pavlov.
Company or developer:
Eugene Roshal
WinRAR is a popular file compression and archive utility. Along with WinZip and 7-Zip is one of the most common compression programs for Windows. Its native format is as the name implies RAR and uses rar file extension.
WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format. WinRAR is also able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7Z, Z archives. It consistently makes smaller archives than the competition, saving disk space and transmission costs. WinRAR offers a graphic interactive interface utilizing mouse and menus as well as the command line interface.
Company or developer:
Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Windows is a family of operating systems developed by the Microsoft Corp.. The first Windows was released in 1985 as a GUI add-on to MS-DOS. MS-DOS based Windows versions were developed to 2000, when was released the last version called Windows ME. Windows based on NT core started in 1993. Windows NT family are developed to these days, the latest version is called Windows 7. On NT core are also developed server versions of Microsoft Windows. The latest version is Windows 2008 Server. For portable devices and minimalistic computers, Microsoft develops Windows CE operating system.
List of software associated to the .cab file extension
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Microsoft Windows platform:
Main software associated with cab file by default:
7-zip
WinRAR
Other suggested software:
StuffIt Expander
StuffIt Deluxe
ALZip
IZArc
ZipZag
Apple Mac OS X platform:
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