What to do with .cab files after install?

[Rock*Lives]

Greetings,

I am waiting on an X30 high and am doing all the research I can. It looks like a lot of applications come on .cab files.

So, I'm supposed to copy these over to my axim, run them (I'm guessing a .cab is the ppc equivalent of an *.msi for Windows), which installs them. Then, I'm supposed to delete the .cab file from my ppc after installation. Are all of my assumptions correct?

Thanks for the newbie help! This site rocks. What a great community you have here of Axim geeks!

...Then, I'm supposed to delete the .cab file from my ppc after installation. Are all of my assumptions correct?

They will be deleted automatically when you install the software.

[Rock*Lives]

Thanks for the answer. I read the tutorial at:

<url>http://www.aximsite.com/articles/link.php?id=66</url>

but I didn't see where I would designate if I wanted the program installed on my Axim's memory or on my SD card. Can you tell me where I can designate that? Thanks.

[Gigi]

You need a utility called cabinstl. I'm on mobile right now, but you should be able to find it easily on Google.

You need a utility called cabinstl. I'm on mobile right now, but you should be able to find it easily on Google.

There is a link to the programme in my MyPDA on the left :approve:

[uapyro]

Very few programs come as a simple *.cab file, or an runable executable for PPC. What I did is that I saw some files were in a zip file as a cab. I started by getting these out of the zip files. Then I had to find a way to do the others. I check in the pgoram fileson the installed computer, and sure enough, there were the other CAB files i needed in there. So i copied all of these to my spare SD card. and then i got cab installer. now, i have all my installs with me, incase somethign goes wrong on my axim on the road and i have no other way to repair/get back what i need

[frankenbike]

I found that keeping .cab files is a good idea when I'm out of town and something goes wrong. I keep them in built in storage. I copy them to a directory on the "Built-in storage" I named "temp" and run them from there, leaving the original cab files in a storage folder in "Built-in storage".

Although I now run full backups stored on the SD card, sometimes after a hard reset the old programs located in BIS won't work right and need to be re-installed. Having the original cab files handy to copy and run again helps make that process less painful.

Hard resets are infrequent, but sometimes weirdness happens every few months. If you're away from a host computer for an extended period of time, having those files with you to get back to normal can be helpful.