• msexpand, which decompress files compressed by Microsoft compress.exe utility (e.g. Win 3.x installation files)
• mscompress, which compress files using LZ77 compression algorithm. Output files can be decompressed using Microsoft expand.exe or msexpand(1).

To install it on your Unix box, configure the package ("./configure") and then type "make all test install".

Other MS-decompressors

• Less MSIérables: A tool to Extract the contents of an .msi File (download here: http://blogs.pingpoet.com/overflow/pubfiles/Lessmsierables-20050611.zip).
• CAB/chm/ Installshield extractor: ZipScan.
• Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset

See also

• My homepage
• My projects