Question about CAB! (This should probably be posted here) - China DOS Union Forum

I want to make a boot disk. Since the files are a bit large, I want to compress them in CAB format and make it like Win98.

Other than CONFIG.SYS, MSDOS.SYS, IO.SYS, COMMAND.COM, HIMEM.SYS, SMARTDRV.EXE, and AUTOEXEC.BAT staying uncompressed, can all the other batch files, menus, commands, and software be compressed into CAB like that?
If so, what extra command-line tools would be needed?
What software is used to compress into CAB format? How do the batch files inside the CAB point to things?
How should AUTOEXEC.BAT be set up for the batch file lines?
The CAB needs to be extracted into memory, not onto the hard disk! It has to run in memory!
I'm a total DOS newbie. Please, experts, teach me a bit. Best of all, according to my requirements, could you make me the simplest possible example so I can download it and study it slowly! Thanks!

Floor1　娃哈哈	Posted 2002-12-18 00:00
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I want to make a boot disk. Since the files are a bit large, I want to compress them in CAB format and make it like Win98. Other than CONFIG.SYS, MSDOS.SYS, IO.SYS, COMMAND.COM, HIMEM.SYS, SMARTDRV.EXE, and AUTOEXEC.BAT staying uncompressed, can all the other batch files, menus, commands, and software be compressed into CAB like that? If so, what extra command-line tools would be needed? What software is used to compress into CAB format? How do the batch files inside the CAB point to things? How should AUTOEXEC.BAT be set up for the batch file lines? The CAB needs to be extracted into memory, not onto the hard disk! It has to run in memory! I'm a total DOS newbie. Please, experts, teach me a bit. Best of all, according to my requirements, could you make me the simplest possible example so I can download it and study it slowly! Thanks!