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Cabinet (file format)

Index Cabinet (file format)

Cabinet (or CAB) is an archive-file format for Microsoft Windows that supports lossless data compression and embedded digital certificates used for maintaining archive integrity. [1]

29 relations: ActiveX, Archive file, Data compression, DEFLATE, Directory (computing), File Explorer, File system, Filename extension, IExpress, InstallShield, Internet Explorer, List of archive formats, Lossless compression, LZX (algorithm), Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows SDK, MSU, Open-source model, Phil Katz, Public key certificate, Quantum compression, Solid compression, Windows Installer, WinRAR, WinZip, Zip (file format), Zlib, 7-Zip.

ActiveX

ActiveX is a software framework created by Microsoft that adapts its earlier Component Object Model (COM) and Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) technologies for content downloaded from a network, particularly from the World Wide Web.

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Archive file

An archive file is a file that is composed of one or more computer files along with metadata........

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Data compression

In signal processing, data compression, source coding, or bit-rate reduction involves encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation.

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DEFLATE

In computing, Deflate is a lossless data compression algorithm and associated file format that uses a combination of the LZ77 algorithm and Huffman coding.

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Directory (computing)

In computing, a directory is a file system cataloging structure which contains references to other computer files, and possibly other directories.

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File Explorer

File Explorer, previously known as Windows Explorer, is a file manager application that is included with releases of the Microsoft Windows operating system from Windows 95 onwards.

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File system

In computing, a file system or filesystem controls how data is stored and retrieved.

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Filename extension

A filename extension is an identifier specified as a suffix to the name of a computer file.

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IExpress

IExpress, a component of Windows 2000 and later, is used to create self-extracting packages from a set of files.

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InstallShield

InstallShield is a proprietary software tool for creating installers or software packages.

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Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated IE or MSIE) is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995.

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List of archive formats

This is a list of file formats used by archivers and compressors used to create archive files.

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Lossless compression

Lossless compression is a class of data compression algorithms that allows the original data to be perfectly reconstructed from the compressed data.

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LZX (algorithm)

LZX is an LZ77 family compression algorithm.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation (abbreviated as MS) is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a group of several graphical operating system families, all of which are developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.

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Microsoft Windows SDK

Microsoft Windows SDK, and its predecessors Platform SDK, and.NET Framework SDK, are software development kits (SDKs) from Microsoft that contain documentation, header files, libraries, samples and tools required to develop applications for Microsoft Windows and.NET Framework.

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MSU

MSU may refer to.

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Open-source model

The open-source model is a decentralized software-development model that encourages open collaboration.

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Phil Katz

Phillip Walter Katz (November 3, 1962 – April 14, 2000) was a computer programmer best known as the co-creator of the Zip file format for data compression, and the author of PKZIP, a program for creating zip files that ran under DOS.

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Public key certificate

In cryptography, a public key certificate, also known as a digital certificate or identity certificate, is an electronic document used to prove the ownership of a public key.

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Quantum compression

The Quantum compression format is a little-known data compression method created by David Stafford of Cinematronics, LLC.

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Solid compression

In computing, solid compression is a method for data compression of multiple files, wherein all the uncompressed files are concatenated and treated as a single data block.

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Windows Installer

Windows Installer (previously known as Microsoft Installer, codename Darwin) is a software component and application programming interface (API) of Microsoft Windows used for the installation, maintenance, and removal of software.

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WinRAR

WinRAR is a trialware file archiver utility for Windows, developed by Eugene Roshal of win.rar GmbH.

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WinZip

WinZip is a trialware file archiver and compressor for Windows, macOS, iOS and Android developed by WinZip Computing (formerly Nico Mak Computing).

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Zip (file format)

ZIP is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression.

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Zlib

zlib is a software library used for data compression.

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7-Zip

7-Zip is a free and open-source file archiver, a utility used to place groups of files within compressed containers known as "archives".

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_(file_format)

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