Cabinet (file type)
In computing, CAB is the Microsoft Windows native compressed archive format. Usually used at ActiveX's Downloading or Phil Katz, the author of ZIP.
- Quantum, licensed from David Stafford, the author of the Quantum archiver.
- LZX, invented by Jonathan Forbes and Tomi Poutanen, gifted to Microsoft when Jonathan joined the company.
- application/x-cab-compressed
See also
ZIP, 7-Zip, RAR, LHA, DGCA, GCA, archive formats.