[tex-live] RE: creating .cab files

[Fabrice Popineau]

I may have found a workaround to use zip files. But it needs a little bit of
testing. And I'm afraid I won't be able to give it a try before next week.

The cab stuff is not the way to go: files are stored in a manner that is too
dependent of the rest of the msi file. That makes it impracticable for unix.
Sorry for not having stopped down this sooner.

Fabrice

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Karl Berry [mailto:karl at freefriends.org]
> Envoyé : mardi 8 juin 2004 14:22
> À : sebastian.rahtz at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
> Cc : fabrice.popineau at supelec.fr
> Objet : Re: creating .cab files
> 
>     I find that 7zip does NOT create .cab files, only read them.
> 
> How sad.
> 
>     I don't know what to suggest next, to be honest.
> 
> I'll see if someone volunteers to incorporate compression into lcab.
> The author still has not replied.