Extract 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:
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
Requirements: GCC, cmake
cd build/
cmake ..
make
- Original proprietary (de)compressor: ICOMP95.EXE.
- Veit Kannegieser reverse-engineered the file format and wrote "stix" in a mixture of Pascal and x86 Assembly.
- Clean C implementation of the "implode" algo by Mark Adler.
- C# unpacker in OpenRA.
- C++ unpacker "isextract" by OmniBlade.
- Python unpacker "idecomp" by lephilousophe.
Later InstallShield archives can be extracted with Unshield.
Licensed under Apache 2.0. © Wolfgang Frisch.
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