Add support for Installer Vise files

[ci-macpaw]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 638

skybub:

Hi,

Could you add support for Installer Vise files ?

It'd be very good to be able to extract all files the installer is supposed to install.

I put an exemple attached (inside the "dmg").

Regards

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* *Attachment: [cp500.dmg](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/theunarchiver/issue-638/comment-0/cp500.dmg)*

[ci-macpaw]

skybub:

Here is the source of Universal Extractor :

http://legroom.net/scripts/download.php?file=uniextract161_source

Regards

[ci-macpaw]

paracelsus:

Doesn't seem like there's any source available for that, though.

[ci-macpaw]

skybub:

FYI, there is a software that runs under Windows and is able to open an Installer VISE
application and extract embedded files the way Tome Viewer (Apple Tomes) and Pacifist
(.pkg) can do for their respective files.


The software is called Universal Extractor :
http://legroom.net/software/uniextract

In order to decode Vise package, it is based on another software called InstallExplorer
:
http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/InstallExplorer.html

Regards

[ci-macpaw]

paracelsus:

This would probably be a good idea, but it seems the biggest problem is lack of information.
It might be a bit too niche a format to be worth putting in the effort of a proper
reverse engineering for. But it would certainly be nice to have.

A quick look around turned up this, which is a small start, but it seems even the attached
file uses more advanced features than those listed in here: http://pastebin.com/GwQYz2gG

If anyone finds any further information, post it here.