- Extension
- .cab
- .gzip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Developer
- Compressed
- Developer
- Microsoft
- GNU
- Description
- A CAB file is a Windows Cabinet file saved in an archive format native to Microsoft Windows that supports .ZIP, Quantum, and LZX data compression algorithms. CAB files contain compressed data and is used for Windows software installations such as system files, network components, and device drivers.
- A compressed file format associated with GNU Zip (Gzip) that uses the DEFLATE compression algorithm, a combination of both the Huffman coding and the Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) codec.
- MIME Type
- application/vnd.ms-cab-compressed
- application/x-gzip
