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.TH "UNSHIELDV3" 1 "2022-12-28" "0.2.1" "SlackBuilds.org"
.SH NAME
unshieldv3 \- Extract InstallShield v3 archives
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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unshieldv3 \fBinfo\fP \fIfile.z\fP
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unshieldv3 \fBlist\fP [\fB\-v\fP] \fIfile.z\fP
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unshieldv3 \fBextract\fP \fIfile.z\fP \fIoutput\-dir\fP
.SH DESCRIPTION
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\fBunshieldv3\fP is a command line tool to extract the .Z InstallShield v3
packages many old windows games were distributed as.
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The files \fBunshieldv3\fP supports normally have a \fB\&.Z\fP extension, and can be
identified by the \fBfile\fP(1) command:
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.nf
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$ file data.Z
data.z: InstallShield Z archive Data
.ft P
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\&...or by the hex signature at the start of the file:
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.nf
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$ head \-c6 data.Z | xxd
00000000: 135d 658c 3a01                           .]e.:.
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If \fBfile\fP says "compress\(aqd data" or similar, your .Z file isn\(aqt an
InstallShield archive; it\(aqs compressed with the old UNIX compress
command, and can be extracted with \fBuncompress\fP(1) or \fBgzip\fP(1).
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When extracting, \fBunshieldv3\fP preserves the directory structure
inside the archive. This is unlike \fBisextract\fP(1), which writes all
the files in the same directory.
.SH OPTIONS
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Options may not be abbreviated.
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.B \fBinfo\fP
Show archive metadata: number of files, compressed size, and
uncompressed size.
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.B \fBlist\fP
List contents of archive. With \fB\-v\fP, shows the size and timestamp
of each file.
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.B \fBextract\fP
Extract archive. \fIoutput\-dir\fP is required, but will not be created if
it doesn\(aqt exist. Use \fB\&.\fP to extract to the current directory.
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.SH COPYRIGHT
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See the file /usr/doc/unshieldv3\-0.2.1/LICENSE for license information.
.SH AUTHORS
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unshieldv3 was written by Wolfgang Frisch.
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This man page written for the SlackBuilds.org project
by B. Watson, and is licensed under the WTFPL.
.SH SEE ALSO
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\fBisextract\fP(1), \fBunshield\fP(1), \fBcabextract\fP(1)
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