New Application - Universal Extractor

Submitted by jbreland on Sun, 01/29/2006 - 16:36

matidio (not verified)

Thu, 02/23/2006 - 15:11

For Installshield your implementation of i6comp doesn't consider a bug of i6comp. I6comp fails with certain CAB-archives and doesn't extract all files of the archive. For example: Logitech last drivers version 8.4x. The folder "Appinst" contains a data1.cab from which i6comp fails to extract files like "camcpl.cpl" and many more. The only way I identified to work around that problem (because I don't have the time to correct the source code of i6comp) is to use the "l" (list) command and extract every single file using this text-list in a selfwritten batch).

Bye

PS: Universal Extractor is a nice program ...

matidio (not verified)

Sat, 02/25/2006 - 14:21

It has some problem recognizing archive formats. If you take a selfextracting format like Winzip (take the Winzip-Setup-Program itself, for example) Universal Extractor aborts with a "Filetype returned was: Nothing found [Overlay] *". The archive is recognized by all other programs like Winzip itself or Winrar.

Bye

This is because of the method I'm using to analyze the files and determine the type. UniExtract doesn't actually do any of this itself; instead, it uses PEiD.exe to analyze the file, and takes action based on its output. If PEiD.exe returns "Nothing found [Overlay]" (as in your specific example), then UniExtract doesn't know how to handle it.

If you know of a better method of determining the filetype of these "unknown" executables, please let me know. I'll do what I can to include it in UniExtract. Please contact me via e-mail, though. I included my e-mail address in my reply to your last comment.

Thanks.

mindsweep (not verified)

Fri, 04/21/2006 - 04:19

With Universal Error v1.1 I get following Error:
Autoit Error
Line 0 (File"C:\...\Uniextract.exe)
$finishgui=false
$finishgui=^ERROR
Error:Unknown function name.

Whats wrong? Do I need a missing dll ?
I have tried it with AutoitDLL.dll already, but
the same error !

jbreland (not verified)

Sun, 04/23/2006 - 21:37

To those whoe reported problems with v1.1: I've fixed the error and uploaded new versions. Please redownload v1.1 for the fix.

Thanks for the bug reports. You can also e-mail them to me; my e-mail address is located in the footer of this website. I tend to check my e-mail much more often than the website comments.

I've added a new application named Universal Extractor to my software section. This application integrates into Windows Explorer and allows right-click extraction for any type of archive, including installers.

Over twenty types of archives are currently supported. Full details about usage and supported formats can be found on the information page.