.CAB Files

[p0welly]

Having developed an application in access 2002 and packaged it using the packaging wizard I find myself wanting to update the main mde file, it seems according to Microsoft I need to go through the wizard again, but the wizard is associated with the file I want to replace, so If i do, i lose all my setting and have to start again.

So the question is, how can I simple replace 1 file from within the cabinet with a newer version?

[John Veteran]

Having developed an application in access 2002 and packaged it using the packaging wizard I find myself wanting to update the main mde file, it seems according to Microsoft I need to go through the wizard again, but the wizard is associated with the file I want to replace, so If i do, i lose all my setting and have to start again.

So the question is, how can I simple replace 1 file from within the cabinet with a newer version?

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I'm pretty sure you can't. The cabinet file format is such that you can't add/replace files in an archive. Just create a new cabinet with the updated file versions.

[samg]

i know you can view CAB's in winRAR.

Dont know if you can extract a file, edit it, then put it back. The install program might have checksums or something.

www.rarlabs.com

[azcodemonkey]

You want to do this programmatically? This may help: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default..../html/cabdl.asp

That page also mentions cabview if you don't want to update programmatically, thought I don't know if it will work with the file you're trying to edit. MS does some wierd stuff with cabs sometimes that makes them unextractable.