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title: "ffxivinstaller.exe"
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This is not a standard InstallShield installer (at least to my knowledge) but seems to a self-extracting executable and then some form of InstallShield executable.
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If you only care about the .cab files (which can then be read with your usual installshield libraries/tools like unshield) then they are contained right in the executable, uncompressed.
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To find them, simply find the needle string "Disk1\\{FileName}" where FileName is the cab filename. They are as follows:
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* data1.cab
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* data1.hdr (to my knowledge, this is some kind of "file index" for installshield installers)
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* data2.cab
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They are simply put right next to each other in the executable, so if you follow that order you'll find each of them quite easily.
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## Alternative Implementations
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* [libxiv (C++)](https://git.sr.ht/~redstrate/libxiv/tree/main/src/installextract.cpp)
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