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+           SPELL=unshield
+         VERSION=0.5
+          SOURCE=unshield-0.5.tar.gz
+   SOURCE_URL[0]=http://ovh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/synce/unshield-0.5.tar.gz
+          MD5[0]=44f9f1a4b10a96e5222427df1eded4ff
+SOURCE_DIRECTORY=${BUILD_DIRECTORY}/${SPELL}-${VERSION}
+        WEB_SITE=http://synce.sourceforge.net/synce/unshield.php
+         ENTERED=20050717
+         UPDATED=20050717
+      LICENSE[0]=MIT
+       BUILD_API=2
+           SHORT="An extractor for InstallShield files."
+cat << EOF
+An installer created by the InstallShield software stores the files it will
+install inside of InstallShield Cabinet Files. It would thus be desirable
+to be able to extract the Microsoft Cabinet Files from the InstallShield
+Cabinet Files in order to be able to install the applications without access
+to Microsoft Windows.
+
+The format of InstallShield Cabinet Files is not officially documented but
+there are two tools available for Microsoft Windows that extracts files
+from InstallShield installers, and they are distributed with source code
+included. These tools are named "i5comp" and "i6comp" and can be downloaded
+from the Internet.
+
+One major drawback with these tools are that for the actual decompression of
+the files stored in the InstallShield Cabinet Files they require the use of
+code written by InstallShield that is not available as source code. Luckily,
+by examining this code with the 'strings' tool, I discovered that they were
+using the open source zlib library (www.gzip.org/zlib) for decompression.
+
+I could have modified i5comp and i6comp to run on other operating systems
+than Microsoft Windows, but I preferred to use them as a reference for this
+implementation. The goals of this implementation are:
+
+    * Use a well known open source license (MIT)
+    * Work on both little-endian and big-endian systems
+    * Separate the implementation in a tool and a library
+    * Support InstallShield versions 5 and later
+    * Be able to list contents of InstallShield Cabinet Files
+    * Be able to extract files from InstallShield Cabinet Files
+EOF