"DATA3.CAB" asked for but not on disk

[storkus]

I'm trying to install the programming software for my ham radio, the Icom RS-91. There's an entry for version 1.0 that says platinum, but mine is either 1.1 or 1.10 (hard to tell from how they wrote it).

Anyway, I'm getting the problem during install that it wants "DATA3.CAB", but no such animal exists on the disk; furthermore, all the disk's readable files say it doesn't exist either, so I'm guessing it's supposed to be decompressed from one of the others (probably "DATA2.CAB"). Trying to copy to a directory and run the install from there, which worked with the CS-D800 software that I wrote an entry for, does not work for this. Further, the install goes without a hitch on an old XP work machine.

Is this some kind of DRM?

I've tried 1.1.3 (which I had before), 1.1.16, and 1.0, in order, with no difference. (There's no Slackware package for 1.1.17 or 1.0.1 and I didn't feel like compiling for (what I thought!) was a simple program.)

Finally, I've spent some time searching and seen a few entries on some games, but otherwise not much.

Any info or ideas would be appreciated!

Thanks, Mike

[storkus]

I finally tried Crossover Linux trial version and it installed flawlessly. Looking at the log, I see the same errors being thrown as with bare WINE, but, for whatever reason, the "DATA3.CAB" error never came up; it also seemed to hang for a bit during install.

Is this concrete evidence that this program is tainted with DRM, or was my WINE installation just screwed up?

Thanks, Mike

P.S. I really would appreciate some answers to this before I drop an update into the AppDB.

[vitamin]

Is this concrete evidence that this program is tainted with DRM, or was my WINE installation just screwed up?

Most likely one of the new regressions in Wine.

[Daemon]

Try using Cabextract http://www.cabextract.org.uk

[storkus]

Weird how quoting doesn't work for me...but anyway...

I doubt it's a "new" regression since, as I mentioned at the beginning, I tried versions 1.0, 1.1.3, and 1.1.16, all to no avail--yet it magically worked with Crossover.

Daemon: I'll try that, or (more likely) the "unshield" program referred to by that.

I'll post here again later with the results. Thanks again!

Mike

UPDATE: "Unshield" had no trouble with it, though now I'm wondering what to do with the mess it left--i.e., how to make wine install it: I have no clue what to tell it!

Also, I think I have a suspicion of what the problem may be: one of the directories spat out after un-shielding has a corrupted-looking directory name, but I suspect it may actually be Japanese in Unicode or some other system, since this software is from a Japanese company and has both English and Japanese files (depending on the localization, I assume). Any suggestions on how to confirm that? (Such as how to feed the directory name into something that understands how to print things other than ASCII, Latin-1, etc.)

[storkus]

No replies, huh? I tried posting this to the Crossover Linux forums as well, without a single reply. A project for another day, perhaps...

In the meantime, I guess I'm buying Crossover--about time I supported wine, I suppose! (For gaming in the near future?)

Mike