Hello,This is probably a very stupid Windows XP question, but I extracted a file to edit from a .CAB file (which contained many files). Now that I've edited it, I can't for the life of me figure out how to put it back into the .cab file it came from...any advice appreciated, thanks.Best,Joel

hi,i have zero experience with xp,but afaik you can add to a cab file with winzip 8.1,and surely others too ;-)

Hey Joel,In order to extract what is in a cabinet file, you must use the Extract utility. Extract.Exe can be found in your Windows folder or on your WindowsXP CD-ROM. If I'm not mistaken, to rebuild a CAB file, you must use the MakeCab.Exe utility that ships with Visual Basic.I could be wrong but I've never been able to re-compile a CAB file once the files have been extracted.Good luck!Mikehttp://www.members.shaw.ca/madamo/boeingsig.jpg

What's the benefit to having all a plane's gauges in a .cab file anyway? Is there any reason not to just put them all back into the guage folder without compressing into a cabinet file?Best,Joel

Hi Joel, With a CAB file everything is compressed and neatly held together in one place. You could extract everything and place into a folder with the same name as the original .CAB and place the entire folder in FS9's Gauges folder (or with FS9, in the panel folder of the aircraft that is using it) and it will work the same. The panel.cfg won't have to be rewritten in this way, but you do lose compression. Winzip will extract files from a CAB, but will not recompile a CAB.Get the Cab SDK here and you will be able to build and rebuild CAB fileshttp://www.microsoft.com/games/flightsimul...sdk.asp#cabfile

I use CabPack to create cabinet files. It's freeware and available here:http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/english.htm

Hmmm, CabPack doesn't work on XP so it doesn't look like that's an option. But it seems like everyone does pack guages into these .cab files.... even if they'll work when "uncabbed" is there any performace benefit to having them compressed? Are they accessed faster by the VC or panel when compressed?I've made some nice visual improvements to some guages (that I may offer on AVSIM with approval of the original authors) but I want to make sure they'll work as well as they did before, no FPS hit, etc.Best,Joel

Hope you don't mind me jumping in here....... Some of the very best freeware and payware aircraft/panels use the folder option while others use the CAB file. I haven't seen any difference in access rates or frame hits etc. They work the same. The biggest difference is the compression which in essence is a smaller size. (1)Takes less disk space on the drive and being 'smaller' is (2)easier for downloads by those that are on a dial-up service. I have a relatively small one that I did and the folder is 25.4KB while the CAB of the same thing is 11KB's.================================================= I think you will like the CAB's, as I did, once you do one. I'll admit here that I couldn't make heads or tails out of MS's explanation, but R

>Hmmm, CabPack doesn't work on XP so it doesn't look like that's an option.

Thanks for the great advice guys! Actually the program may work in XP, but the site only says 98, NT, etc. but not XP so I didn't download it.Best,JOel