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+cabextract is Free Software for extracting Microsoft cabinet files,
+also called .CAB files, on UNIX or UNIX-like systems. cabextract is
+distributed under the GPL license. It is based on the portable LGPL
+libmspack library. cabextract supports all special features and all
+compression formats of Microsoft cabinet files.
+Microsoft cabinet files are used to distribute all kinds of data and
+software: core Web fonts, Longhorn videos, operating system updates
+and video codecs, to give some examples.