'Cabinet' file listing

An MS-DOS batch-file to return the contents of a 'cabinet' file as a text file.

Contents

1. Introduction.
2. Listing of this batch-file.

Introduction

A simple batch-file to generate a text file containing a listing of the contents of a 'cabinet' file. A cabinet file has the extension 'CAB'. Perhaps the most likely use of this batch-file is to view the contents of the Windows95 distribution.

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Listing of this batch file

@echo off
:: CabList                            ::
::                                    ::
:: A batch file to list the contents  ::
:: of a CAB file                      ::
::                                    ::
@extract /d "%1" > %temp%\listcab.txt
@notepad.exe %temp%listcab.txt

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