Some samples at this site are packaged as Windows 95 cabinet files (with a .CAB extension) for you to download and save for decompression later. To extract the files that are compressed within a cabinet, run the EXTRACT utility, which is a DOS program supplied as standard with Windows 95.
To be sure of extracting all files when running that EXTRACT utility, please read the accompanying bug note. In short, the known Windows 95 versions of Microsoft’s EXTRACT.EXE interpret *.* literally and will not extract files whose names have no extension. The work-around provided in that note is especially relevant for the several programming samples that include source code (and therefore probably also one or more files named simply “makefile”).
Some users of web browsers from Netscape report that the cabinet files are corrupt. Investigation has shown that in the copy received on these users’ machines, each line-feed has been expanded to a carriage-return and line-feed pair. I do not use Netscape’s browsers and I cannot begin to think why they treat cabinet files as text rather than as binaries. If you encounter this problem and you are a Netscape user, then please direct your enquiries to Netscape, not to me.
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