I'm using a Windows 98 bootdisk and i'm having a problem with extract.exe, it
says "Out of memory while processing something.cab".



I tried everything i can think of to FIX it and it just keeps on giving me the
error "Out of memory while processing something.cab". I even tried extracting
different cab files.



I know the cabs are not corrupt because they open fine when i TRY opening them
on a different computer running Windows.



The cab files have maximum compression.Is this a boot DISK or a Win98 install disk? I can't IMAGINE what you would need the extract program for with a bootdisk.

How much memory does your system have? And what are you trying to do?

Get back to us. It is a Windows 98 bootdisk.

I'm extracting programs and games from .cab files.

The .cab files have maximum compression.

I know the cabs are not corrupt because they open fine when i try extracting them on a different computer running Windows in Dos Mode.

The memory is

free conventional 585k
free upper 76k
free RESERVED 0k
free extended (xms)* 12,285
total memory 12,952k
largest executable file 585k

MS-DOS is in the high memory area/All I could find out was that EXTRACT is a DOS program, requires 92KB to run, and has switches which control it's operation.

Check out: http://www.pcxt-micro.com/ms-dos7.html#extract for details on the switches.

The other possibility is that EXTRACT needs a certain amount of memory to hold the CAB file data. Any chance you could extract the files on the Windows machine and then transfer them to your machine?

Good luck.