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| Thread ID: 21077 | 2002-06-17 22:27:00 | Windows Cabinet files In plain simple English please? | Guest (0) | Press F1 |
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| 54858 | 2002-06-17 22:27:00 | Hi, (if this doesnt loook good then, click the view button) I've been creating cab files becasue I have the original version of Windows 95, and the only way I can import these cab files was using WINZIp. But because I had to use disks, I then lost all cab formats because they were too big for my floppy. Ive managed to make a cab file successfully, using (Cabarc)but then the instructions get a little more hairy and am confused of the next following obsticle? you must then upload it to your web server and make it available to web browsers using the CABBASE parameter as follows: 7 <APPLET CODE = 'MyApplet.class' 7 ARCHIVE = 'MyApplet.zip' 7 WIDTH = '140' 7 HEIGHT = '140'> 7 <PARAM NAME = 'cabbase' 7 VALUE = 'MyApplet.cab'> 7 </APPLET> 7 In this case, Internet Explorer will parse the parameter and access the cabinet file. Can someone please explain all this in simple 'ENGLISH' (To create emphasis)? What is an Applet tag? How do I make one? Do I need an Inf file? Specs: Microsoft SDK Java 4.0, Win2k, (aint programmer material, just a newbie)+aint got CD Writer and don't have the original Win95 CD |
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| 54859 | 2002-06-17 23:59:00 | MS info about Windows 9x installation floppies search.support.microsoft.com Cabmaker for creating cabinet files mcsoftware.home.ml.org To set or alter file date and time stamps www.simtel.net Maxidisk for creating DMF sized floppies www.herne.com Items to be aware of: Read the MS instructions - in this case they are correct, Floppy disks need to be labelled correctly, Cabinet files need to have the correct contents and date/time stamp, All loose files need to have the correct date/time stamp. Consider using WinImage to create solid self-extracing files to floppies for future use rather than zip files. |
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| 54860 | 2002-06-18 01:18:00 | I have used Winimage to format discs to 1.68 (or whatever) MB (= Distributed Media Format, DMF) and found it useful. For instance, I have put almost the complete file set of Norton Utilities 6 on a floppy - can be handy for troubleshooting. It only works with Win 9.x (? and later) because earlier versions of DOS can't read that format. For copying discs, Winimage is an image copier similar to Diskcopy. This should help with your discs-too-small problem if you still have it. |
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| 54861 | 2002-06-18 05:54:00 | If all you want to do is move a few MB of files to another computer, you don't have to do it 'right'. You just need to move some files. If you have created a set of cab files, why not use Interlink? Or Laplink? Or even use WinZip (or any version of Zip) and make a (*spanned*) Zip file onto floppies? Unzip them at the other end into a \WIN95 directory and there it is. |
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| 54862 | 2002-06-18 19:49:00 | Hi,\ Seems though that I went through all that trouble just finding out how to make a cabinet folder and hence I've just been given a solution to use 'spanned' instead? That was my second choice (at the time of writing)but really, since I had gone this far, all I wanted to know what was the above meaning and what or how was I supposed to do from that point onwards after making a cabinet folder? |
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