I've created an update to the cabextract package. http://www.cabextract.org.uk/cygwin/cabextract-1.4-1.tar.bz2 http://www.cabextract.org.uk/cygwin/cabextract-1.4-1-src.tar.bz2 The old version to keep is 1.3, any older than that can be removed. Regards Stuart