building ms-office.deb (rpm, tgz)

[Andreas Mohr]

Rod Smith <rodsmith at speaker.rodsbooks.com> wrote:
> In article <3a8aa908$0$551$45beb828 at newscene.com>,
> 	Jon Griffiths <jon_p_griffiths at keep_your_ads_to_yourself.yahoo.com> writes:
>> Hi,
>> 
>>> -> Feedback on the general idea, feasibility.

> One potential problem is that, AFAIK, Microsoft releases its products in
> its own CAB data file format. You'd need some sort of extractor for
> this, or maybe run a Windows CAB extractor under WINE. I don't know of
> any open source CAB extractor, but I'd love to be proven wrong.
Then love it ;-)
www.kyz.uklinux.net/cabextract.php3

That's the one I know. There might be others.
The .c file hints to
http://trill.cis.fordham.edu/~barbacha/cabinet_library/
, too.

Andreas Mohr