OT: File compression on CDRom

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu]

On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 10:19:12AM -0500, karina.popkova at verizon.net wrote:
> Good Morning,
> 
> My mother has a CDRom with some Medical Questions
> (Self Study material), that has a number of files on it.
> The files have file extensions such as:
> .DL_
> .DE_
> .LE_
> .EX_
> .TL_
> .LST
> .ME_ 
> etc.
> 
> My Google shows these to be compressed files
> put onto the CDRom. 
> 
> Any suggestions on how to decompress these files
> or how to salvage the 100's of files on this
> CDRom?

These are files compressed by the Windows installation
compressor. Try cabextract at
http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/cabextract.php

-dsr-