I finally wrote a module for reading CAB archives today. With this module, you can read the list of files inside the CAB archives and which file takes up how many bytes. I did not add the date and time of the files, since I did not need it, but it is very easy to do it myself by slightly redesigning the module and the custom UDT array to get the file list data.
This is a very simple implementation, I tried to make as few lines of code as possible so that there would be. In fact, unpacking a CAB archive is generally done with just one line of code. To do this, you need to access the undocumented, but very useful, ExtractFiles function from the library advpack.dll which is available in all Windows.
Now you know how to get a list of files from the CAB archive and how to unpack the CAB archive with the program-code on VB6. However, the packaging feature is not implemented here, since this is a very complex code using the FCICreate function from the library cabinet.dll I was looking for a ready-made version of such code on the Internet, but I didn't find it for vb6, so I haven't written the packaging yet.
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