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UnshieldV3

Extract InstallShield V3 (Z) archives.

About InstallShield v3 (Z) archives

InstallShield Z format is a compressed archive format used by version 3 of the InstallShield installation software.

Z files can be recognized by their magic marker: 13 5D 65 8C 3A 01 02 00.

Contained files are compressed with the "PKware implode" algorithm.

Usage

usage: 
  unshieldv3 help                        Produce this message
  unshieldv3 info ARCHIVE.Z              Show archive metadata
  unshieldv3 list [-v] ARCHIVE.Z         List ARCHIVE contents
  unshieldv3 extract ARCHIVE.Z DESTDIR   Extract ARCHIVE to DESTDIR

e.g.

$ ./unshieldv3 list -v NETSCAPE.1
Path                             Size  Date
----                             ----  ----
NHANDBK.ICO                       766  1995-06-12 12:17:56
HANDBK.ICO                        766  1995-06-12 12:17:48
NSCAPE16.TLB                     3728  1995-07-17 17:02:20
NAPLAYER.EXE                   149360  1995-06-30 15:51:12
NETSCAPE.EXE                  1353344  1996-03-08 21:24:34

Building

Requirements: GCC, cmake

cd build/
cmake ..
make

References

See also

Later InstallShield archives can be extracted with Unshield.

Authors

Licensed under Apache 2.0. © Wolfgang Frisch.

Contributors

  • @OmniBlade
  • @ligfx
  • @adrium