InstallShield Z

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* [http://legroom.net/software/uniextract Universal Extractor]
 
* [http://legroom.net/software/uniextract Universal Extractor]
 
* InstallShield File Compressor: Official compressor/decompressor utility (Windows command-line). Several different versions of it can be found on the internet (as icomp.zip, icompx.zip, icomp95.zip, ...). Included with Universal Extractor.
 
* InstallShield File Compressor: Official compressor/decompressor utility (Windows command-line). Several different versions of it can be found on the internet (as icomp.zip, icompx.zip, icomp95.zip, ...). Included with Universal Extractor.
* [https://github.com/wfr/unshieldv3/ Open source InstallShield v3 extractor (C++)]
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* [https://github.com/wfr/unshieldv3/ Open source InstallShield v3 extractor (C )]
* [https://github.com/DeclanHoare/stix/ Open source InstallShield v3 extractor (Pascal & Assembly)]
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* [https://github.com/DeclanHoare/stix/ Open source InstallShield v3 extractor (Pascal
* [https://github.com/madler/zlib/tree/master/contrib/blast Free implementation of PKware "explode" algorithm (C)]
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* [https://github.com/OmniBlade/isextract isextract]
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* {{Deark}}
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== Sample files ==
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* {{CdTextfilesURL|cdaction/cdaction24b/GOLF/}} → *.Z, *.LIB
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* {{CdTextfilesURL|cdaction/cdaction40/DEER/}} → *.Z, *.LIB
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* {{CdTextfilesURL|hotgames/KidsEMail/}} → *.z, _SETUP.LIB
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* https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/archive/installShieldZ/
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Revision as of 02:53, 28 December 2023

File Format
Name InstallShield Z
Ontology
Extension(s) .z, .lib
Wikidata ID Q28758103

InstallShield Z format is a compressed archive format used by version 3 of the InstallShield installation software. Documentation is lacking but it has been partially decoded and implemented by open source projects.

It uses PKWARE DCL Implode compression.

Identification

Files begin with bytes 13 5D 65 8C 3A 01 02 00.

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