ISCAB.EXE prevents setup

[Uridium88]

I figured out what happened. I was using ISCAB.EXE with the -p switch on a
cab file that didn't have a password. ISCAB.EXE would password protect the
cab file anyway and didn't provide a way to remove it!

James Johnson

"Russell C" <r...@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:37f27...@news.installshield.com...
> We use iscab to update ALL of our cab files including _user1.cab with no
> problem. However, we are on IS 5.51. Sure do miss those Z files.....
>
> FYI - Not directly related, but is about ISCAB
>
> One problem that I know of is that Iscab can delete cab/hdr files under
the
> following scenario:
>
> If your cab file ends with a number, for example 1120ta81.cab and
> 1120ta91.cab. If these files are in the same directory, and if one is
> updated, the other will be deleted and removed from layout.bin. If these
> are built via the IDE or commandline build, there is no problem. Just a
> prob with Iscab.
>
> Russell
>
>
> Stefan Krueger <@> wrote in message <37e7a...@news.installshield.com>...
> >AFAIK iscab is intended to modify dataN.cab files.
> >
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> >James Johnson <jljo...@kettley.com> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
> >37d98...@news.installshield.com...
> >> When using ISCAB.EXE for InstallShield Professional, version 5.53, to
> >> rebuild the Language Indepenent, OS Independent file group in
_USER1.CAB,
> >> setup won't run. My SETUP.BMP appears with the initial progress dialog,
> >but
> >> it stops at 99%. The cab looks just fine using InstallShield's CAB
> Viewer.
> >>
> >> BTW FYI--
> >> Using the Windows Scripting Host, I've discovered these return codes
from
> >> ISCAB.EXE that could be used with the DOS ERRORLEVEL command:
> >>
> >> 0 = Success
> >> 105 = File(s) listed in the INI were not found.
> >> 120 = The file(s) to remove were not found.
> >> 134 = The INI file was not found.
> >> 147 = Layout.bin not found.
> >>
> >> James Johnson
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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